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[suhb-kon-shuh

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adjective

existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: the subconscious self. Compare preconscious, unconscious.

imperfectly or not wholly conscious: subconscious motivations.

noun

the totality of mental processes of which the individual is not aware; unreportable mental activities.

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Origin:
1825–35; sub- + conscious

Related forms

sub·con·scious·ly, adverb

sub·con·scious·ness, noun

non·sub·con·scious, adjective

non·sub·con·scious·ly, adverb

non·sub·con·scious·ness, noun

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Example Sentences

The subconscious brain is more active, independent and purposeful than once thought.

In retrospect, my campus performance seems a subconscious plea.

It's my liver exerting influence on my subconscious brain, no doubt.

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The subconscious brain is more active, independent and purposeful than once thought.

In retrospect, my campus performance seems a subconscious plea.

It's my liver exerting influence on my subconscious brain, no doubt.

Alzheimer s is not probably a disease but an initiative of an individual s subconscious mind.

So there's a sort of subconscious anxiety about candy.

With the biometric toolkit developed by his company, he says that my own subconscious impulses will give it away.

Any amiable conversation provides ample evidence of this subconscious social waltz.

Maybe it is only a subconscious slip, muses another.

Our subconscious notices incongruities in a scene.

More importantly, the paintings remind me of how deeply uncanny games are, how directly they seem to tap into our subconscious.

He also zeroed in on behavior patterns and subconscious fears that limited or even subverted investment goals.

So in a subconscious way, the wealthier someone comes across as, the brainer they are perceived to be.

In dreams and meditation our personal subconscious can access transpersonal levels of insight.

You'd have to give me brown acid before that even so much as mildly confuses my subconscious.

Styron does not say so, may have been the unwitting blocking of this precious access to his subconscious mind.

Of course this is false, but it is there in the subconscious of a generation.

Such is how the subconscious mind interprets your world.

Don't hold your breath for black hole travel or a machine that allows the subconscious to manifest real objects.

But clearly it had been lurking in his subconscious for some time.

Perhaps their pressured lives were too much for their metal and their subconscious wanted out.

Similar subconscious memories may haunt recovering addicts.

Functions of the subconscious may be subconscious because they are neural rather than glial.

Tiny subconscious eye movements called microsaccades stave off blindness in all of us-and can even betray our hidden desires.

There are layers to motives, with the bottom layers being subconscious.

In this way your subconscious mind will work on how to make that your reality when you sleep.

Projection is largely a function of the shadow side in the subconscious mind.

The reason for all these responses is the subconscious release of a stress hormone called adrenaline.

It can be painful, but it works to bring the subconscious ticks to the surface imawakenow:.

Viewed from the verandah, the image is apparent to the subconscious but is invisible to the eye.

In that one, he proved his ability to penetrate and expose the alien and angry impulses of the subconscious mind.

In fact what you're doing is conforming to subconscious gender norms-that.

Neurologically there will be deep subconscious belief circuitry and routines evolved to support this type of behaviour no doubt.

Pheromones are subconscious chemical signals used by many species to communicate with or attract mates.

The suggestion had lain dormant in my subconscious for over three decades.

It can be painful, but it works to bring the subconscious ticks to the surface.

Our philosophy is, a name should connect with something already in the collective subconscious.

Both conscious and subconscious thoughts and actions are reflexive responses to both internal and external stimuli.

These subconscious patterns of risk perception also seem to affect the judgments of the people who bring us the news.

In fact what you're doing is conforming to subconscious gender norms-that is, if you're a man.

I've been told the subconscious cannot determine the nature of abstract dataonly concrete data.

Many a street criminal with a gun in his belt would make a constant subconscious effort to keep it from falling out.

It talks a lot about the subconscious and how it processes signals, and why you should listen.

Tiny subconscious eye movements called microsaccades stave off blindness in.

The subconscious message is that real men don't care about such fey things as clothes.

The initial contact between two people is often a subconscious test of who has more power.

Besides, you cannot control the nightly ride on the wings of your subconscious.

Such behavior is usually driven by conscious or subconscious desire to elicit some support from the audience.

Failures of blinding allow conscious or subconscious factors to distort reporting.

Hunter at first said that not involving the league might have been a subconscious decision.

Estella's subconscious gets a strenuous workout during the course of the film.

The real heavy lifting, neurologically speaking, is in our subconscious anyway.

Or, maybe it was my subconscious motivation to start a philosophical discussion which overpowered my desire to converse civilly.

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World English Dictionary

subconscious (sʌbˈkɒnʃəs)

—*adj*
1.	acting or existing without one's awareness: subconscious motive

—n
2.	psychoanal preconscious Compare unconscious that part of the mind which is on the fringe of consciousness and contains material of which it is possible to become aware by redirecting attention

sub'consciously

—*adv*

sub'consciousness

—n

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Word Origin & History

subconscious

1823, "not wholly conscious" (implied in subconsciously), from sub- + conscious. First attested in De Quincey. The noun, in the psychological sense, is attested from 1886; earlier subconsciousness (1874).

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Medical Dictionary

subconscious sub·con·scious (sŭb-kŏn'shəs)
adj.
Not wholly conscious; partially or imperfectly conscious. n.
The part of the mind below the level of conscious perception.

sub·con'scious·ly adv.

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