unconscious
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Adjective (3)
- not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead“lay unconscious on the floor”Opposite consciousSimilar subconscious, insensible, comatose, knocked out, semicomatose, innocent, cold, nonconsciousSee also asleep, unaware, insensible, involuntary
- without conscious volitionOpposite voluntarySimilar involuntary, nonvoluntary
- (followed by ‘of’) not knowing or perceiving“happily unconscious of the new calamity at home — Charles Dickens”Opposite awareSimilar unaware, incognizant
Noun (1)
- that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unawareSynonyms: unconscious mindType of mind, headParts id, superego
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Translations
Noun the unconscious mind
- French
- inconscient
- Italian
- inconscio
- Portuguese
- inconsciente
- Russian
- бессозна́тельное bessoznátelʹnoje
- Chinese
- 潜意识 qiányìshí
- Japanese
- 無意識 muishiki
- Polish
- nieświadomość
- Greek
- ασυνείδητο asyneídito
- Korean
- 무의식 muuisik
- Vietnamese
- vô thức
5 more languages
- Hungarian
- tudattalan
- Portuguese (PT)
- inconsciente
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 潛意識 qiányìshí
- Finnish
- alitajunta
- Romanian
- inconștient
Adjective not awake
- Spanish
- inconsciente
- French
- inconscient
- German
- bewusstlos
- Portuguese
- inconsciente
- Russian
- без созна́ния bez soznánija
- Japanese
- 意識不明 ishiki fumei
- Dutch
- bewusteloos
- Polish
- nieprzytomny
- Swedish
- medvetslös
- Vietnamese
- bất tỉnh
9 more languages
- Hungarian
- eszméletlen
- Portuguese (PT)
- inconsciente
- Czech
- nevědomý
- Danish
- bevidstløs
- Esperanto
- senkonscia
- Finnish
- tajuton
- Icelandic
- meðvitundarlaus
- Norwegian
- bevisstløs
- Romanian
- inconștient
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. William Cowper
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.” Sir Richard Blackmore
3. Having no knowledge by experience; — followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke. Alexander Pope
4. Unintentional; as, an unconscious insult.
— Un·con′wb-a1′>′scious·ly, adverb — Un·con′wb-a1′>′scious·ness, noun
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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors