CONSCIENCE

noun see: science Date: 13th century 1. the sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good, a faculty, power, or principle enjoining good acts, the part of the superego in psychoanalysis that transmits commands and admonitions to the ego, consciousness , conformity to the dictates of ~ ; conscientiousness, sensitive regard for fairness or justice ; scruple , ~less adjective