The awareness of the self as an entity. / Shyness; a feeling of unease in social situations.

To increase a person's awareness of, and often sympathy for, an issue, cause, or condition.

plural of false consciousness

(Marxism, including its brand of social sciences) A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.

plural of consciousness

(cognitive theory) a supposed mode of cognition beyond human self-awareness / (Hegelianism) the notion of historical progress in the evolution of the human mind

An increase of concerned awareness, especially of some social or political issue.

plural of conscious

plural of stream of consciousness

plural of consciousness-raising