unconscious

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Arthur Koestler says the idea of the unconscious was already known before the actual word 'unconscious' was coined.

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  1. adjective Lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception; not conscious.
  2. adjective Temporarily lacking consciousness.
  3. adjective Occurring in the absence of conscious awareness or thought: unconscious resentment; unconscious fears.

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  • Even though Doc and his aides were unconscious, the men approached warily. —  059 - The Living Fire Menace
  • Frannie was unconscious, and she'd been bleeding from the head, but it had dried. —  Southern Vamp 7 - All Together Dead
  • "My fear is that we were made to swallow chemical pills while we were unconscious, and we have been absorbing oxygen, or some substitute, in that fashion Blazes!" —  067 - The Red Terrors
  • He was unconscious, and his nose had stopped bleeding. —  Lemons Never Lie by Richard Stark
  • But they made a fighting mess of distributing them Two men were unconscious, and nobody paid attention to them Doc said, "Put parachutes on the unconscious men They did that, watching the grenade in his hand as if it was a horned devil Doc indicated a burlap-covered coil of rope, rather small, which had been in the stuff stored under the floor Cut two lengths of rope," he ordered. —  125 - Mystery On Happy Bones
 

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/ənˈkɑnʃəs/
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