state of consciousness

collocation in English

meaningsofstateandconsciousness

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state
adjective[before noun]
uk
/steɪt/us
/steɪt/
provided, created, or done by the state (= government of ...
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consciousness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkɒn.ʃəs.nəs/us
/ˈkɑːn.ʃəs.nəs/
the state of understanding and ...
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(Definition ofstateandconsciousnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These environmental cues required a resolutestateofconsciousnessmarked by an observable determined complete presence, the seeming randomness making anticipation impossible.
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For all, the operation required the identification of an unavoidably primordial everydayness as the site of an unmediated and unadornedstateofconsciousness.
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These events are suitably linked into the same person-stage, that is, because they figure in the samestateofconsciousness.
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Unable to interpret thisstateofconsciousness, they were left "deranged," leading to "megalomaniacal" claims of prophethood and "superstitious" notions of truth.
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A percept is a complexstateofconsciousnessin which antecedent sensation is supplemented by consequent ideas that are closely combined to it by association.
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Monitor the subject'sstateofconsciousnessover several days, and provide this information to someone following the unprocessed oscillations of scalp voltage.
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Hesse (1996) suggests that these unpredictable lapses in behavior reflect sudden changes instateofconsciousness.
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Csikszentmihalyi (1990) notes that individuals engaged in certain types of skilful activities, such as music performance, may enter a heightened or intensifiedstateofconsciousness.
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The presence of an unfractured skull was taken as evidence of doubt as to thestateofconsciousnessof the animal before skinning.
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One girl develops a secondary personality in order to cope with her newstateofconsciousness, which gradually ousts her original personality.
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Once in a time-stop, it is impossible to change one'sstateofconsciousness.
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This, in effect, would give us a sample which approximates the higheststateofconsciousnessa type of superconscious state.
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In this, beauty is an alteredstateofconsciousnessand can be seen in the mundane and simple.
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Anystateofconsciousnesscan form a type of intermediate state, intermediate between other states of consciousness.
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Psychoactive drugs aides in altering thestateofconsciousness.
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They make one shake and go into an alteredstateofconsciousness.
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It is a breakthrough, a new opportunity to rise to higherstateofconsciousness.
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Bliss ("nanda") is the internalstateofconsciousness, its natural state.
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The various translations that have been proposed all refer to an ecstaticstateofconsciousness, which is attained by channelling the emotions into one-pointed concentration.
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The dreamer explores the images of the dream while in a hypnagogic state, astateofconsciousnessbetween waking and sleeping.
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