Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for consciousness
The synonym for consciousness recorded in this bank is awareness, in the sense "having knowledge of". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for consciousness
- awarenessnoun, in the sense "having knowledge of"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for consciousness.
having knowledge of
His sudden consciousness of the problem he faced.
The true synonym
awareness
Same sentence, swapped: His sudden awareness of the problem he faced.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- ken
- understanding
- intelligence
Where consciousness turns up in the game
consciousness is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where consciousness is the trap
- confusionnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is disarray, in the sense "a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior", so consciousness is there to be ruled out.
- understandingnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is savvy, in the sense "the cognitive condition of someone who understands", with consciousness sitting one tile away.
Play consciousness
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so consciousness reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. consciousness carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.