All 50 Uses

conscious
in
1984, by Orwell
(Edited)

At the time he was not conscious of wanting it for any particular purpose.
p. 6.7

conscious = aware
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.
p. 8.3

conscious = mentally aware
Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.
p. 16.9

consciousness = mental activity of which one is self-aware
An overpowering smell of sweat, a sort of unconscious testimony to the strenuousness of his life, followed him about wherever he went, and even remained behind him after he had gone.
p. 22.5

unconscious = knowledge of which one is not self-aware

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconscious, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
There was a sort of calculating ferocity in the boy's eye, a quite evident desire to hit or kick Winston and a consciousness of being very nearly big enough to do so.
p. 23.5

consciousness = awareness
He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated.
p. 34.8

consciousness = mental activity of which one is self-aware
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the…
p. 35.2

conscious = aware and concerned about
That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.
p. 35.5

consciously = purposefully
That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.
p. 35.6

unconsciousness = mental activity of which one is unaware

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsciousness means not and reverses the meaning of consciousness. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconsciousness, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.
p. 35.6

unconscious = unaware

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
With the deep, unconscious sigh which not even the nearness of the telescreen could prevent him from uttering when his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles.
p. 37.4

unconscious = done without mental awareness

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconscious, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.
p. 39.7
In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. ... Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.
p. 52.5

consciousness = mental activity of which one is self-aware
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
p. 53.4

unconsciousness = mental activity of which one is unaware

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsciousness means not and reverses the meaning of consciousness. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconsciousness, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.
p. 54.6
Orthodoxy was unconsciousness.
p. 55.6

unconsciousness = mental activity of which one was unaware

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsciousness means not and reverses the meaning of consciousness. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconsciousness, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself — anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide.
p. 62.2

unconscious = done without mental awareness

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconscious, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
They were a few meters apart when the left side of the man's face was suddenly contorted by a sort of spasm. ... He remembered thinking at the time: That poor devil is done for. And what was frightening was that the action was quite possibly unconscious.
p. 64.3

unconscious = done without awareness

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconscious, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
He was painfully conscious of the risk he had taken in coming here.
p. 68.6

conscious = aware and concerned about
But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.
p. 69.7

conscious = aware
He wrote: Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
p. 70.8
He wrote: Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
p. 70.8
He smiled apologetically, as though conscious of saying something slightly ridiculous, and added: 'Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's!'
p. 98.1
He sat staring at the marbled cover of the book, trying without success to shut the voice out of his consciousness.
p. 102.3

consciousness = awareness
But there was still that memory moving round the edges of his consciousness, something strongly felt but not reducible to definite shape, like an object seen out of the corner of one's eye.
p. 122.2

consciousness = mental activity of which one is self-aware
Folly, folly, his heart kept saying: conscious, gratuitous, suicidal folly.
p. 137.2

conscious = with awareness
It was curious how that predestined horror moved in and out of one's consciousness.
p. 140.2

consciousness = awareness
One could not avoid it, but one could perhaps postpone it: and yet instead, every now and again, by a conscious, wilful act, one chose to shorten the interval before it happened.
p. 140.3

conscious = intentional (done on purpose)
It was a memory that he must have deliberately pushed out of his consciousness over many years.
p. 160.7

consciousness = mental activity of which one is self-aware
His sister, conscious of having been robbed of something, had set up a feeble wail.
p. 163.4

conscious = aware
The proles had stayed human. They had not become hardened inside. They had held on to the primitive emotions which he himself had to re-learn by conscious effort.
p. 165.6 *

conscious = intentional (done on purpose with effort)
He went on, conscious that what he was saying must sound both feeble and pretentious: 'We believe that there is some kind of conspiracy, some kind of secret organization working against the Party, and that you are involved in it.'
p. 170.1

conscious = aware
Motives which were already present to some small extent in the great wars of the early twentieth century have now become dominant and are consciously recognized and acted upon.
p. 186.7

consciously = purposefully
In the early twentieth century, the vision of a future society unbelievably rich, leisured, orderly, and efficient — a glittering antiseptic world of glass and steel and snow-white concrete — was part of the consciousness of nearly every literate person.
p. 189.1

consciousness = awareness
And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.
p. 192.1

consciousness = awareness and concern
— for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives —
p. 201.9 *

conscious = aware
The new movements which appeared in the middle years of the century, Ingsoc in Oceania, Neo-Bolshevism in Eurasia, Death-Worship, as it is commonly called, in Eastasia, had the conscious aim of perpetuating unfreedom and inequality.
p. 203.5

conscious = intentional (done on purpose)
As usual, the High were to be turned out by the Middle, who would then become the High; but this time, by conscious strategy, the High would be able to maintain their position permanently.
p. 203.7
As compared with their opposite numbers in past ages, they were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more conscious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition.
p. 205.6

conscious = aware
It is a problem of continuously moulding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it.
p. 207.9

consciousness = awareness
The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influenced in a negative way.
p. 208.1
The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.
p. 214.5

conscious = done with mental awareness
The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.
p. 214.6

unconscious = done without mental awareness

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconscious, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
p. 214.6

conscious = intentional (done on purpose)
They fell, that is to say, either through consciousness or through unconsciousness.
p. 215.3

consciousness = awareness
All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft. Either they became stupid and arrogant, failed to adjust themselves to changing circumstances, and were overthrown; or they became liberal and cowardly, made concessions when they should have used force, and once again were overthrown. They fell, that is to say, either through consciousness or through unconsciousness.
p. 215.3

unconsciousness = mental activity of which one is unaware

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsciousness means not and reverses the meaning of consciousness. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconsciousness, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
The slightly more favored workers whom we call 'the proles' are only intermittently conscious of the war.
p. 216.1

conscious = aware
Sooner or later it would happen, strength would change into consciousness.
p. 220.8

consciousness = awareness
Out of those mighty loins a race of conscious beings must one day come.
p. 221.4

conscious = aware
A very faint whimpering or squeaking, which seemed unconscious, came out of him.
p. 236.1

unconscious = unintentional

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(1) (conscious as in: conscious after the operation)
awake (not asleep or in a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything)
(2) (conscious as in: a conscious effort to lose weight)
intentional (done on purpose) -- perhaps with significant effort
(3) (conscious as in: environmentally conscious)
aware or concerned about something
(4) (conscious as in: the conscious mind)
mental activity of which one is self-aware
(5) (conscious as in: conscious life on other planets)
capable of thought, self-reflection, and will
(6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

conscious in 1984, by Orwell (Edited)

conscious
in
1984, by Orwell
(Edited)