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Noun: half-consciousness
- The property of being only partially aware of or sensitive to something.
"But there was between the cousins another far less obvious antipathy — coming from the unseizable family resemblance, which each perhaps resented; or from some half-consciousness of that old feud persisting still between their branches of the clan, formed within them by odd words or half-hints dropped by their elders."
Type of: apprehension, discernment, savvy, understanding
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half-blooded
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half-evergreen
half-free morel
half-hardy
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half-bred
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half-caste
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half-consciousness
half-crazed
half-dozen
half-dugout
half-evergreen
half-free morel
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