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means Being awake and aware — of yourself, your surroundings, or some particular fact.

from From Latin conscius, 'knowing with' or 'sharing knowledge' — built from con- ('together with') and scire ('to know'), the same root that gives us 'science.' The earliest sense was almost social: to be conscious of something was to share a secret knowledge of it, often a guilty one (the Romans spoke of a conscia mens, a mind that knows what it has done). English borrowed it around the 17th century, and only gradually did it drift inward, from 'knowing-with-others' to the strange private fact of simply knowing at all.