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consciência

Portuguese, noun

consciência is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “conscience, consciousness (moral sense)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, consciencia is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “faculdade que permite ao homem o conhecimento e a avaliação do que se passa em si mesmo e à sua volta”.

What does consciência mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineconscience, consciousness (moral sense)

  2. 2

    feminineimmediate knowledge of one's own psychic activity

  3. 3

    feminineability to know oneself intuitively

  4. 4

    femininespontaneous and more or less vague knowledge; impression

  5. 5

    feminineclaircognizance

  6. 6

    feminineself-awareness (the state in which the subject knows himself as such, and distinguishes himself from the objects that surround him)

  7. 7

    feminineconscientiousness; the ability to make value judgments about one's own actions

  8. 8

    femininehonesty; righteousness

noun

as consciencia
  1. 1

    femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of consciência

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. faculdade que permite ao homem o conhecimento e a avaliação do que se passa em si mesmo e à sua volta 2. testemunho ou julgamento secreto da alma, aprovando ou reprovando nossos atos 3. capacidade de julgar os próprios atos do ponto de vista moral 4. cuidado extremo com que se executa um trabalho

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of consciência

  • consciências plural
  • conciência alternative
  • consciencia alternative
  • consciencias plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to consciência

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is consciência in Portuguese?

consciência appears 58 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).