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un⋅con⋅scious

[uhn-kon-shuhs]
–adjective
1. not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
2. temporarily devoid of consciousness.
3. not perceived at the level of awareness; occurring below the level of conscious thought: an unconscious impulse.
4. not consciously realized, planned, or done; without conscious volition or intent: an unconscious social slight.
5. not endowed with mental faculties: the unconscious stones.
–noun
6. 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.

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


un⋅con⋅scious⋅ly, adverb
un⋅con⋅scious⋅ness, noun
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Main Entry: 2unconscious
Function: noun
: the greater part of the psychic apparatus accumulated through life experience that is not ordinarily integrated oravailable to consciousness yet is manifested as a powerful motive force in overt behavior especially in neurosis and is often revealed (as through dreams, slips of the tongue, or dissociated acts)—compare SUBCONSCIOUS
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unconscious un·con·scious (ŭn-kŏn'shəs)
adj.

  1. Of or in a state of unconsciousness; not conscious.

  2. Occurring in the absence of conscious awareness or thought, as an emotion or motive.

  3. 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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