Conscience vs. Conscious
Lately I’ve seen quite a few characters who either have a guilty conscious or are not conscience. It seems this is the perfect time to review.
Conscience is a noun meaning “consciousness of the moral right and wrong of one’s own acts or motives.”
That little lie weighed on my conscience.
Conscious is an adjective meaning “aware,” “mentally awake and alert,” or “done with awareness or purpose.” Conscious can also be a noun meaning “the upper level of mental life of which a person is aware: Consciousness.”
After two days in a coma, the patient was fully conscious but still in serious condition. I made a conscious decision not to tell her the truth about the accident … and that little lie weighed on my conscience.
(Definitions from The Merriam-Webster Dictionary.)
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