All 50 Uses of

conscious
in
The Fountainhead

The guests stood about, self-consciously informal, working at being brilliant.†
Chpt 1.10

self-consciously = with nervousness or discomfort felt by someone due to concern about what others will think of them

It was as if they had all been comfortably naked, and a person had entered fully clothed, suddenly making them self-conscious and indecent.†
Chpt 2.5 *

self-conscious = nervousness or discomfort felt by someone due to concern about what others will think of them

His staff shook hands with him and he saw the strain of smiles self-consciously repressed, until a young boy burst out: "What the hell!†
Chpt 4.12

self-consciously = with nervousness or discomfort felt by someone due to concern about what others will think of them

Guy Francon descended from the platform, fully conscious of his timing and movements.†
Chpt 1.2

He did not glance back, but the consciousness of those centered glances never left him.†
Chpt 1.2

Whenever he thought of Davis afterward, Keating felt a warm pleasure; he had influenced the course of a human being, had thrown him off one path and pushed him into another; a human being—it was not Tim Davis to him any longer, it was a living frame and a mind, a conscious mind—why had he always feared that mysterious entity of consciousness within others?†
Chpt 1.5

Whenever he thought of Davis afterward, Keating felt a warm pleasure; he had influenced the course of a human being, had thrown him off one path and pushed him into another; a human being—it was not Tim Davis to him any longer, it was a living frame and a mind, a conscious mind—why had he always feared that mysterious entity of consciousness within others?†
Chpt 1.5

Some smiled at him with thin, drawn lips and seemed to enjoy his presence in the room, because it made them conscious of their own accomplishment.†
Chpt 1.8

He was frankly masculine, frankly unconcerned about elegance and frankly conscious of the effect.†
Chpt 1.8

He knew only the shock, at first; a distinct, conscious second was gone before he realized what it was and that it was applause.†
Chpt 1.9

She turned to him, as if she were emerging from unconsciousness.†
Chpt 1.9

unconsciousness = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything

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.

He thought that there was a difference, some important difference, between the consciousness of this day in him and in them.†
Chpt 1.11

In the deeper reality of Roark's existence there was no consciousness of Heller, no need for Heller, no appeal, no demand.†
Chpt 1.11

He had long since given up any attempts beyond holding her hand when not necessary or patting her shoulder; he had stopped thinking of the subject, but he had a dim, half-conscious feeling which he summed up to himself in the words: You never can tell.†
Chpt 1.12

Keating was conscious of nothing save the sudden stab of joy he had felt on seeing her; the joy told him that nothing had changed, that he was safe in certainty, that her presence resolved all doubts.†
Chpt 1.12

When he answered, he heard them say: "Oh, yes, indeed," and he saw the conscious politeness of their manner tell him that he was an architect by presumption.†
Chpt 1.14

She was conscious of her summer dresses, she felt her knees, her thighs encountering the faint resistance of cloth when she moved, and it made her conscious not of the cloth, but of her knees and thighs.†
Chpt 2.1

She was conscious of her summer dresses, she felt her knees, her thighs encountering the faint resistance of cloth when she moved, and it made her conscious not of the cloth, but of her knees and thighs.†
Chpt 2.1

She stood very still, because her first perception was not of sight, but of touch: the consciousness, not of a visual presence, but of a slap in the face.†
Chpt 2.1

In some unstated way, last night had been what building was to him; in some quality of reaction within him, in what it gave to his consciousness of existence.†
Chpt 2.2

It was strange to be conscious of another person's existence, to feel it as a close, urgent necessity; a necessity without qualifications, neither pleasant nor painful, merely final like an ultimatum.†
Chpt 2.2

She was not conscious of the days that passed.†
Chpt 2.2

That evening, Ellsworth Toohey was conscious of no one but Roark.†
Chpt 2.6

He said that every civilization has its one basic principle, one single, supreme, determining conception, and every endeavor of men within that civilization is true, unconsciously and irrevocably, to that one principle.... I think, Kiki, that every human soul has a style of its own, also.†
Chpt 2.6 *

unconsciously = not in a self-aware manner

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsciously means not and reverses the meaning of consciously. 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 subconsciously, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.

I want you—like this—not hysterical with desire—but coldly and consciously—without dignity and without regrets—I want you—I have no self-respect to bargain with me and divide me—I want you—I want you like an animal, or a cat on a fence, or a whore.†
Chpt 2.7

Though, of course, none of them knows it consciously, except yourself.†
Chpt 2.8

If this was a victory Ellsworth did not seem conscious of it as such; he did not seem to care.†
Chpt 2.9

It was an accidental, unconscious moment.†
Chpt 2.10

unconscious = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything

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.

They did not talk about the trial, but there was no strain and no conscious avoidance of the subject.†
Chpt 2.12

He thought that exaltation comes from the consciousness of being guiltless, of seeing the truth and achieving it, of living up to one's highest possibility, of knowing no shame and having no cause for shame, of being able to stand naked in full sunlight.†
Chpt 2.12

In his anger, apprehension, curiosity and flattered pleasure, his first conscious thought was gratitude to God that his mother was not at home.†
Chpt 2.14

He knew that he was violently alive, that he was forcing the stupor into his muscles and into his mind, because he wished to escape the responsibility of consciousness.†
Chpt 2.14

But most of him was not conscious of the thought nor of the intimate proprietorship with which he opened the bag.†
Chpt 2.14

"Crossing ahead," in dots of light that seemed conscious, malevolent, winking.†
Chpt 2.14

For the first time this implication of marriage occurred to him fully and consciously.†
Chpt 2.14

They lay in bed together that night, and they did not know when they slept, the intervals of exhausted unconsciousness as intense an act of union as the convulsed meetings of their bodies.†
Chpt 2.14

unconsciousness = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything

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.

Like a piece of expensive steel, he bent, slouched and made people conscious, not of his pose, but of the ferocious spring that could snap him straight at any moment.†
Chpt 3.1

He was unconscious when found.†
Chpt 3.1

unconscious = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything

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.

But he had been conscious that night, after the beating.†
Chpt 3.1

The saloonkeeper looked at him with a flat, heavy glance, a glance that showed full consciousness of agony, of injustice—and a stolid, bovine indifference.†
Chpt 3.1

Its enormous headlines, glaring pictures and oversimplified text hit the senses and entered men's consciousness without any necessity for an intermediary process of reason, like food shot through the rectum, requiring no digestion.†
Chpt 3.1

I'm not conscious of having shown that.†
Chpt 3.3

He had answered her at once; he had not seemed conscious of making an exception.†
Chpt 3.4

Keating had never heard a man speak in a manner so consciously controlled.†
Chpt 3.5

She had no consciousness of purpose.†
Chpt 3.5

It clung to her with a tight insistence that seemed conscious, like the peremptory caress of a cat.†
Chpt 3.5

You have a right to make people conscious of yourself.†
Chpt 3.6

Everybody was conscious of that, except Peter Keating.†
Chpt 3.6

It became a rigid set of new rules—the discipline of conscious incompetence, creative poverty made into a system, mediocrity boastfully confessed.†
Chpt 3.6

She did not withdraw her hand, but her fingers became rigid, conscious, taken away from him.†
Chpt 3.7

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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

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