1.
[syn: unconscious mind, unconscious]
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead;
- Example: "lay unconscious on the floor"
2. without conscious volition;
3. (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving;
- Example: "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
unconscious \un*con"scious\ ([u^]n*k[o^]n"sh[u^]s), a.
1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental
perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not
knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.
--Cowper.
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2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; resulting from
neural activity of which a person is not aware; as, an
unconscious movement; unconscious cerebration.
"Unconscious causes." --Blackmore.
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3. Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as,
a mule unconscious of the yoke. --Pope.
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4. Unintentional; as, an unconscious insult.
[PJC] -- Un*con"scious*ly, adv. -- Un*con"scious*ness,
n.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
unconscious \un*con"scious\ ([u^]n*k[o^]n"sh[u^]s), n.
(Psychoanalysis)
Usually
the unconscious; that part of the mind in which mental
processes occur that are not accesible to the awareness,
but may significantly influence behavior.
[PJC]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
unconscious
adj 1: not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for
sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious
on the floor" [ant: conscious]
2: without conscious volition
3: (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving; "happily
unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens
n 1: that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place
of which the person is unaware [syn: unconscious mind,
unconscious]