conciencia
Spanish, noun
conciencia is spelled C-O-N-C-I-E-N-C-I-A (10 letters) and appears 58 times per million words in written Spanish, the 1,512th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Conciencia is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “awareness (state of knowing something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of concienciar. With an accent, concienciá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of concienciar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Capacidad de distinguir entre el bien y el mal y de enjuiciar moralmente los propios actos”.
What does conciencia mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineawareness (state of knowing something)
- 2
feminineconsciousness (state of having cognition and sensation)
- 3
feminineconscience, morals
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of concienciar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Capacidad de distinguir entre el bien y el mal y de enjuiciar moralmente los propios actos. 2. Sentido moral o ético propio de una persona. 3. Conocimiento espontáneo y poco reflexivo de una realidad. 4. Conocimiento claro y reflexivo de una realidad, especialmente cuando implica asumir una responsabilidad.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of conciencia
- conciencias plural
- concencia alternative proscribed
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to conciencia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is conciencia in Spanish?
conciencia appears 58 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).