consciousnesses
- 1Plural of consciousness.
The novel weaves together the consciousnesses of three very different characters.
Philosophers debate whether artificial minds could ever develop genuine consciousnesses.
Note
A plural that works only once awareness is counted mind by mind, with each person's cognition and sensation treated as a separate unit. It can also count the minds themselves, because consciousness can mean a being with cognition: several consciousnesses may be several thinking beings, not just several states of awareness. When awareness is not being divided up this way, use the uncountable singular instead.
consciousnesses is a form of consciousness
consciousness, noun: The state of having thought and sensation; the mental life of thinking and feeling itself. Full entry
- Forms
- consciousnessconsciousnesses plural
- Spelling
- consciousness → consciousnesses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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