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[uhn-kon-shuhs]

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adjective

not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.

temporarily devoid of consciousness.

not perceived at the level of awareness; occurring below the level of conscious thought: an unconscious impulse.

not consciously realized, planned, or done; without conscious volition or intent: an unconscious social slight.

not endowed with mental faculties: the unconscious stones.

noun

the unconscious, Psychoanalysis. the part of the mind containing psychic material that is only rarely accessible to awareness but that has a pronounced influence on behavior.

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Origin:
1705–15; 1915–20 for def. 6; un-¹ + conscious

Related forms

un·con·scious·ly, adverb

un·con·scious·ness, noun

qua·si-un·con·scious, adjective

qua·si-un·con·scious·ly, adverb

self-un·con·scious, adjective

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Other changes in awareness can occur without becoming unconscious.

What is so interesting about these photos is that they give us a way to think about how the unconscious works.

Sodium thiopental, an anaesthetic used in surgery, is first injected to render the convict unconscious.

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Other changes in awareness can occur without becoming unconscious.

What is so interesting about these photos is that they give us a way to think about how the unconscious works.

Sodium thiopental, an anaesthetic used in surgery, is first injected to render the convict unconscious.

Those unconscious memories don't rely on the hippocampal region to be consolidated and stored.

Brain scan allows unconscious patient to communicate.

Frick's office, shot the tycoon three times and stabbed him with the file before workers pulled him off and beat him unconscious.

Every year, more than a hundred million people undergo surgery after being knocked unconscious by inhaled anesthetics.

Booth was unconscious for forty-eight hours previous to his death.

Also, usually part of the deal with babysitters is that your child is unconscious for part of the time.

Our engagement there has been until now a little unconscious.

But after so many years of taking the same walk, the journey has etched itself on his unconscious.

Researchers adapt a test for unconscious bias to tap secrets of the heart.

Rapid, unconscious eye movements explain a famous optical illusion in which a still image appears to move.

How long you remain unconscious may be a sign of the severity of the concussion.

The first step is to program your unconscious mind for success.

Yet only someone who is unconscious can fail to see what is really going on here.

Horses are supposed to be rendered unconscious prior to slaughter, usually by a stun gun.

Becoming aware of your sleeping self could relieve anxiety or tap the creative unconscious.

In a recent case, a man found unconscious in his home was treated for low blood sugar and thought to be a diabetic.

Most of us have some prejudice, conscious or unconscious.

Every rejecting stimulus tends to make unconscious fear conscious.

You'll know you have a shot, and finding the best vantage point will verge on being an unconscious process.

Once scorned as nervous tics, certain tiny, unconscious flicks of the eyes now turn out to underpin much of our ability to see.

Humans are constantly engaged in this subtle, unconscious dance, but the behavior is startling in a machine.

Real time managers don't have time to make all these long prediction and unconscious bets regarding it.

The unlucky diver is dragged to the surface, unconscious.

And this unconscious reward is pushing the next time to do it again and again.

We have been intrigued with the notion that the human collective unconscious somehow anticipates large impending perturbations.

Fitting of the progeny of the man who discovered and pierced the unconscious.

Cats and dogs are rendered unconscious within a minute, then eventually die from lack of oxygen.

His basic proposition was that our motivations remain largely hidden in our unconscious minds.

Her husband was unconscious after too many pills and too much liquor.

With his arms crossed over his head and his feet twitching, he was unconscious and drowning.

But the unconscious state has a cost: it makes animals vulnerable to predators.

Sometimes those solutions go against what our unconscious forces would want us to do.

It's that unconscious detail that these successful centenarians possess.

On-screen body language toward black characters can increase unconscious prejudice in viewers.

The observer experiences an unconscious stimulation from that ghost, reinforcing the incongruity perception.

She lay unconscious for four to five minutes and was bleeding from her mouth.

His energy will be sapped by his unconscious resentment, boredom, and sense of futility about changing this pattern.

Scriptwriters have internalized the unconscious social habits of everyday conversation.

London was taken ill last night and was found unconscious early today by a servant who went to his room to awaken him.

But it will still slip into the veins and arteries of unconscious patients who won't be able to say no.

Discuss tactics with search-committee members for developing a broad and deep pool of applicants and combating unconscious bias.

How unconscious fears of infection shape many aspects of our psychology.

She could not testify about the incident because she had been unconscious at the time.

It would be all-too-easy to be influenced by unconscious biases in my responses to the papers.

Tim knows how to trust his unconscious and let things marinate.

He lay on his back unconscious for about eight minutes while physicians worked on him.

Racial literacy requires familiarity with unconscious bias as well as structural.

Not pictured is the crowd of tourists gawking at the shirtless, unconscious man.

He still was unconscious when carted to his dressing room.

Our so-called unconscious mind is aware of all these sensations.

The existence of this ability suggests the operation of an unconscious visual perception system in the human brain.

The finding could have far-reaching consequences for how unconscious patients are cared for and diagnosed.

Now, you talk about race and link this to an unconscious agenda that de-authorises someone/culture/way of doing things.

So for me it's when you can switch to a foreign language and be unconscious that you're speaking.

Visuals get distorted, they split into different colors and see dinosaurs, then fall unconscious.

And they can maintain the bodies of people who are permanently unconscious.

Mom shouldn't be doing anything for you unless you're unconscious in the hospital".

Governments try to wear fine noble clothes that cover much unconscious self serving behavior.

These gaps are fueled by fears and an unconscious drive to maintain a particular self-image or self-worth.

When tinkering is part of the household pattern, that pattern gets set in a unconscious level.

What makes it scary is that the moves are almost completely unconscious and totally irrational.

The images flash so fast that this lack of reaction is at the unconscious level.

Like other forms of discrimination these days, it's subtle and often unconscious.

The inmates who aren't already lying on the ground unconscious fall back.

Iyengar points out that the people who chose against their tastes were often unconscious of what motivated their decision.

Consciousness isn't in the body when the body is unconscious.

Whilst the unconscious pathways are not so although synesthetic connectivity still allows control of the bady and its actions.

So determining our conscious experience and marrying it to unconscious process.

Another example is unconscious processes of the brain, such as visual and audible processing.

Yet psychologists widely agree that unconscious processes exert a powerful influence over our choices.

The answer is that it came from real experience and is unconscious.

In many cases there is no conscious access to the missing information, but it is still available to unconscious pathways.

Brainwaves change with a healthy person's conscious and unconscious mental activity and state of arousal.

Vaccines are making us progressively unconscious and reactive in various and unpredictable ways.

Once a sound reaches the nerves in your ears, it travels to the brain stem to be processed in an automatic, unconscious fashion.

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World English Dictionary

unconscious (ʌnˈkɒnʃəs)

—*adj*
1.	lacking normal sensory awareness of the environment; insensible
2.	not aware of one's actions, behaviour, etc: unconscious of his bad manners
3.	characterized by lack of awareness or intention: an unconscious blunder
4.	coming from or produced by the unconscious: unconscious resentment

—n
5.	psychoanal See also collective unconscious subconscious Compare preconscious the part of the mind containing instincts, impulses, images, and ideas that are not available for direct examination

un'consciously

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

unconscious

1712, "unaware, not marked by conscious thought," from un- (1) "not" + conscious. Meaning "temporarily insensible, knocked out" is recorded from 1860. In psychology, the noun the unconscious (1884) is a loan-translation of Ger. das Unbewusste. The adj. in this sense is recorded from 1912.

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Medical Dictionary

unconscious un·con·scious (ŭn-kŏn'shəs)
adj.

Of or in a state of unconsciousness; not conscious.
Occurring in the absence of conscious awareness or thought, as an emotion or motive.
Without conscious control; involuntary or unintended.

n.
In psychoanalytic theory, the division of the mind 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.

un·con'scious·ly adv.

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Cultural Dictionary

unconscious definition

The part of the psyche lying far below consciousness and not easily raised into consciousness. In Freudian psychology, the unconscious cannot be directly observed with the conscious mind, but it has its own processes and deeply affects conscious thought.

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