Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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consciousness

UK /ˈkɒnʃəsnəs/ · US /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/ noun

Forms consciousnesses

  1. noun (uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
  2. noun The state or trait of having cognition and sensation; cognition and sensation themselves. “To lose consciousness after striking one's head”
  3. noun The fact of having knowledge of a particular fact or matter; cognizance.
  4. noun (politics) Acute awareness (of something) and belief in its communal relevance. “the development of a feminist consciousness”
  5. noun (countable) A being with cognition.

Synonyms

awareness witfulness cognizance cognisance knowingness

Antonyms

unconsciousness

Etymology

From conscious + -ness.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc. Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or "ego" of its acts and affections; --in other words, the self-affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these modifications are mine. Sir W. Hamilton.
  2. noun Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “consciousness”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “consciousness” (best matches first).

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