unconsciousness
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Noun (1)
- a state lacking normal awareness of the self or environmentOpposite consciousnessType of cognitive state, state of mindKinds unknowingness, trance, semitrance, coma, grogginess, semicoma, electrosleep, blackout, insensibility, narcosis +1 more
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“unconsciousness” is listed under unconscious.
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
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54