CONSCIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consciously mean? 

• CONSCIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONSCIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. with awareness

  Familiarity information: CONSCIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSCIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With awareness

Context example:

she consciously played with the idea of inviting them

Antonym:

unconsciously (without awareness)

Pertainym:

conscious (knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts)

 Context examples 

For the first time he became himself, consciously and deliberately at first, but soon lost in the joy of creating in making life as he knew it appear before his listeners' eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He laughed rather consciously; and though denying the sentiment, Emma was convinced that it had been so.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Miss Lavinia looked consciously at Miss Clarissa, and heaved a little sigh.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Not that he did this consciously, however.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But, while apparently amusing themselves in the most careless fashion, they were half-consciously making discoveries and forming opinions about each other.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle; and twelve years had transformed the fine-looking, well-grown Miss Hamilton, in all the glow of health and confidence of superiority, into a poor, infirm, helpless widow, receiving the visit of her former protegee as a favour; but all that was uncomfortable in the meeting had soon passed away, and left only the interesting charm of remembering former partialities and talking over old times.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She even went farther, in a timid way inciting him, but doing it so delicately that he never suspected, and doing it half- consciously, so that she scarcely suspected herself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When, according to our old custom, we sat before the fire at night, we often fell into this train; as naturally, and as consciously to each other, as if we had unreservedly said so.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That he loved her, on the other hand, was as clear as day, and she consciously delighted in beholding his love-manifestations—the glowing eyes with their tender lights, the trembling hands, and the never failing swarthy flush that flooded darkly under his sunburn.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Miss Baker and I exchanged a short glance consciously devoid of meaning.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)