noun

• (uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
  "To lose consciousness after striking one's head"
• (uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
  "Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited."
• (uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
  "the development of a feminist consciousness"
• (countable) A being with cognition.
  "The pantheistic mainstream asari religion is siari, which translates roughly as "All is one." The faithful agree on certain core truths: the universe is a consciousness, every life within it is an aspect of the greater whole, and death is a merging of one's spiritual energy back into the greater universal consciousness. Siarists don't specifically believe in reincarnation; they believe that spiritual energy returned to the universal consciousness upon death will eventually be used to fill new mortal vessels."