different between eloquent vs conscious

English

Etymology

From Old French eloquent, from Latin eloquens (“speaking, having the faculty of speech, eloquent”), present participle of eloqui (“to speak out”), from e (“out”) + loqui (“to speak”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??l.??kw?nt/

Adjective

eloquent (comparative more eloquent, superlative most eloquent)

1. fluently persuasive and articulate
2. effective in expressing meaning by speech

Usage notes

Eloquent expresses stronger praise than do articulate or well-spoken.

Synonyms

• articulate
• well-spoken

Derived terms

• eloquently

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• eloquent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• eloquent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French éloquent, from Latin ?loqu?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.lo??k??nt/
• Hyphenation: e?lo?quent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adjective

eloquent (comparative eloquenter, superlative eloquentst)

1. eloquent

Inflection

Synonyms

• bespraakt (uncommon)
• welbespraakt
• welsprekend

Related terms

• elocutie
• eloquentie

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

eloquent (comparative eloquenter, superlative am eloquentesten)

1. eloquent

Declension

Synonyms

• redegewandt

Related terms

• Eloquenz

Further reading

• “eloquent” in Duden online

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French eloquent, from Latin eloquens (“speaking, having the faculty of speech, eloquent”), present participle of eloqui (“to speak out”), from e (“out”) + loqui (“to speak”).

Adjective

eloquent m (feminine singular eloquente, masculine plural eloquents, feminine plural eloquentes)

1. eloquent

Related terms

• eloquence

English

Etymology

From Latin c?nscius, itself from con- (a form of com- (“together”)) + sc?re (“to know”) + -us.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: /k?n?sh?s/ IPA^(key): /?k?n.??s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?n.??s/, /?k?nt??s/

Adjective

conscious (comparative more conscious, superlative most conscious)

2. Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.

3. Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
   • 1999, Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:

     The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come.  Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.

4. Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.
   • Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.

5. Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.
   • 1907, Brigham Henry Roberts, Defense of the Faith and the Saints, volume 1, page 43:

     He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind.
6. Known or felt personally, internally by a person.

   conscious guilt

7. Self-conscious.
   • 1616—1650, Richard Crashaw:

     The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.

Antonyms

• asleep
• unaware
• unconscious

Derived terms

Related terms

• conscience

Translations

Noun

conscious (plural consciouses)

1. The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.