Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception; not conscious.
- adj. Temporarily lacking consciousness.
- adj. Occurring in the absence of conscious awareness or thought: unconscious resentment; unconscious fears.
- adj. Without conscious control; involuntary or unintended: an unconscious mannerism.
- n. The division of the mind in psychoanalytic theory containing elements of psychic makeup, such as memories or repressed desires, that are not subject to conscious perception or control but that often affect conscious thoughts and behavior.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not conscious. Not occurring in or attended by consciousness; subconscious: as, unconscious inference.
- Not conscious to one's self; not self-conscious; not knowing; not perceiving; unaware; hence, regardless; heedless: as, unconscious of guilt or error.
- Not known or perceived as existing in one's self; not felt: as, unconscious generosity.
- Not possessing consciousness; non-conscious.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not awake.
- adj. Without directed thought or awareness.
- adj. sports engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
- n. psychology The unconscious mind
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant.
- adj. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; resulting from neural activity of which a person is not aware.
- adj. Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by
of . - adj. Unintentional.
- n. (Psychoanalysis) Usually the unconscious; that part of the mind in which mental processes occur that are not accesible to the awareness, but may significantly influence behavior.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. without conscious volition
- adj. (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving
- adj. not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead
- n. that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware
Examples
“Neurasthenia, stammering, aversions, kleptomania, certain cases of paralysis, are nothing but the result of unconscious autosuggestion, that is to say the result of the action of the _unconscious_ upon the physical and moral being.”
Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English
“I believe that denial and the choice to remain unconscious is evil.”
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“And of course the unconscious is at work when that happens, and you have to allow it to open up, to be found.”
“Kudos, Gary - you have a very honest unconscious (then again, our unconscious is always honest, ain't it ....)”
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“The other parts of the brain, including the right hemisphere, support emotional responses and what we refer to as the unconscious mind.”
“The lectures say that a child can take in everything, hold it but not absorb it in what they call the unconscious.”
“It helps what I call unconscious eating, that is, eating more calories than we're aware of.”
“In the original manuscript Wordsworth speaks of the "fear and awe" that "fall upon me often when I look/Into my soul, into the soul of man –," turning toward the collective, yet via a psychoanalysis whose confrontation with the unconscious is as much threateningly personal and idiosyncratic as consolingly universal, the latter clearly taking precedence by the time of the 1814 version, in which the more obscure work of the soul (to borrow Ffytche's term) is sublimated, intellectualized, and allegorized as the collective social work of the universal "Mind.”
““Humans, too, when confronted with irritants, engage in unconscious but often creative behavior.””
“The Enterprise encounters a probe which renders the captain unconscious for roughly 30 minutes, half an hour during which he experiences a lifetime among the civilization that created the probe.”
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