consciousness : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a drug that can produce mood changes and distorted perceptions
  mind-altering drug; psychoactive drug; psychoactive substance.
  

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• noun a religious sect founded in the United States in 1966; based on Vedic scriptures; groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna; devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy
  Hare Krishna; ISKCON.
  

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• noun the occurrence of a loss of the ability to perceive and respond
  

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• noun embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
  uncomfortableness; uneasiness.
  
• noun self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you
  

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Self`-con"scious*ness noun

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1. The quality or state of being self-conscious.

Webster 1913

• noun a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
  
• noun the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience
  

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