Synonyms of consciously

consciously

adverb

as in intentionally

with full awareness of what one is doing

she consciously chose to take the more dangerous route down the mountain

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intentionally
• deliberately
• purposely
• knowingly
• purposefully
• willfully
• voluntarily
• purposively
• wittingly
• on purpose
• designedly
• advisedly
• willingly
• calculatedly
• studiedly
• premeditatedly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unconsciously
• inadvertently
• unwittingly
• accidentally
• incidentally
• unintentionally
• randomly
• unknowingly
• involuntarily
• instinctively
• spontaneously
• haphazardly
• unwillingly
• impulsively

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of consciously

The players keep performing, and the audience may not consciously recognize what changed. — Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Culpepper and Tanida cover it in unhurried, consciously beautiful tracking shots that appear simple, but required a full court press to make real. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026

Responding instead of reacting Everyone engages in emotional regulation throughout the day – whether consciously or not. — Jessica Griffin, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2026

Maybe not consciously, but emotions run high as the moon and Mercury clash! — Usa Today, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026

What the team still can’t definitively say is whether sperm whales blow bubbles in their sleep consciously or unconsciously. — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 23 July 2026

What is interesting is that Zidane, 54, has been consciously removed from professional football for five years, and that appears to be of little concern to anyone. — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Tamil itself is no less a political construction, with public discourse and education carried out in a self-consciously archaic form of the language only half-intelligible to many speakers of its multifarious vernaculars. — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

His hands are in his lap, one wrist clasped almost self-consciously. — Literary Hub, 17 July 2026