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subconscious
[ suhb-kon-shuhs ]
adjective
- existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: Compare preconscious, unconscious.
the subconscious self.
- imperfectly or not wholly conscious:
subconscious motivations.
noun
- the totality of mental processes of which the individual is not aware; unreportable mental activities.
subconscious
/ sʌbˈkɒnʃəs /
adjective
- acting or existing without one's awareness
subconscious motive
noun
- psychoanal 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 Compare preconscious unconscious
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Derived Forms
- subˈconsciously, adverb
- subˈconsciousness, noun
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Other Words From
- sub·con·scious·ly adverb
- sub·con·scious·ness noun
- non·sub·con·scious adjective
- non·sub·con·scious·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of subconscious1
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Example Sentences
Their motives were the usual mix of the honorable, the base, and the subconscious.
The third eye would seem to symbolize a hidden inner knowledge or the subconscious.
So start by recalibrating your own, perhaps subconscious, expectations.
I knew that on a subconscious level at the writing stage, because of the way the stories went together.
His latest film, A Dangerous Method, could be seen as the culmination of his subconscious-self trilogy.
Flick awoke by one of those subconscious mental perceptions that the Society for Psychical Research is at present investigating.
What he had said in his sleep—was it in reality the words of unconsciousness, or was it subconscious knowledge?
But he also had come with the subconscious plan of getting at anything that would help Withers.
Whatever this entity might be, an entity it was, entirely distinct from his own conscious or subconscious mind.
Never, in the uttermost depths of his subconscious, would he have been likely to label himself Popsy.
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