consciously

Adverb

Meaning

In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

designed aware carefully freely deliberately conscious intentionally deliberate voluntarily purposely optically resolutely determinedly wilfully expressly
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Antonyms

unconsciously incidentally simply automatically accidentally mechanically
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Related terms

self-consciously

Phrases with the word

smile self-consciously

Examples

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. Aldous Huxley

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. Audre Lorde

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. Thomas Mann

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected. Donald Trump

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey. Rudyard Kipling

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. Earle Brown

Close letter words and terms

conscious thing conscious tourism conscious uncoupling consciousness consciousness excursion consciousness exit