conscious
awake or aware
Roots
- -ous / -ious: full of or marked by a quality
- com-: with, together, complete, or intensified
- sci / scire: know, understand, or be aware
Other words with the sci / scire root
- conscience: inner sense of right and wrong
- conscientious: careful and guided by duty or conscience
- prescience: knowledge of events before they happen
- prescient: seeming to know what will happen before it does
- science: organized knowledge tested by observation
Conscious keeps the knowing image: the mind is aware of what is happening.
After the long exam she was conscious of every small noise.