What does Unconscious mean?

Definitions for Unconscious
ʌnˈkɒn ʃəsun·con·scious

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unconscious mind, unconsciousadjective

    that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware

  2. unconsciousadjective

    not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead

    "lay unconscious on the floor"

  3. unconsciousadjective

    without conscious volition

  4. unconscious(p)adjective

    (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving

    "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens

Wiktionary

  1. unconsciousnoun

    The unconscious mind

  2. unconsciousadjective

    Not awake.

    She lay unconsious on the floor.

  3. unconsciousadjective

    Without directed thought or awareness.

    My sudden fright was an unconscious response.

  4. unconsciousadjective

    engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unconsciousadjective

    Having no mental perception.

    Unconscious causes only still impart
    Their utmost skill, their utmost power exert;
    Those which can freely chuse, discern, and know,
    Can more or less of art and care bestow. Richard Blackmore.

    A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke,
    Untam’d, unconscious of the galling yoke. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. unconscious

    Unconscious refers to the state of not being awake and aware of one's surroundings or sensations, often due to illness, injury or sleep. It can also pertain to the mental processes of which an individual is not aware. These unconscious processes can influence one's feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. In psychology, the unconscious mind often carries memories, desires, or fears that may not be readily accessible to the conscious mind but can still influence behavior and emotions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unconsciousadjective

    not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man

  2. Unconsciousadjective

    not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious cerebration

  3. Unconsciousadjective

    having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unconscious

    un-kon′shus, adj. not conscious: not self-conscious, not perceiving.—adv. Uncon′sciously.—n. Uncon′sciousness.

British National Corpus

  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Unconscious' in Adjectives Frequency: #929

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Unconscious in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Unconscious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Unconscious in a Sentence

  1. Michael J. Gelb:

    Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

  2. George Orwell, 1984:

    It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime ...

  3. Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903:

    The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

  4. James Nicoll:

    The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

  5. Francis Jeffrey:

    There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

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