UNCONSCIOUS


Meaning of UNCONSCIOUS in English

I. |ən+ adjective

1.

a. : not knowing or perceiving : not aware

seemed quite unconscious of her scrutiny — A.T.Quiller-Couch

happily unconscious of the new calamity at home — Charles Dickens

b. : free from self-awareness

would never again be quite the same unconscious creature — John Galsworthy

2.

a. : not possessing mind or consciousness : nonconscious

unconscious matter

b.

(1) : not marked by conscious thought, sensation, or feeling

unconscious processes behind conscious mental states

(2) : of or relating to the unconscious

c. : having no consciousness for the time being

he lay inert, breathing heavily and unconscious — Dorothy Sayers

3. : not consciously held, exercised, or displayed : not realized

found in the countryside the profound, unconscious content that animals find — Rose Macaulay

unconscious bias

4. : not deliberately planned, organized, or carried out : not consciously directed

is language an unconscious collective growth, with a life of its own, beyond individual control — A.L.Guérard

the unconscious choice of words — W.F.Mackey

• un·con·scious·ly adverb

• un·con·scious·ness noun

II. noun

1. : the absolute principle of the universe according to the doctrine of panpneumatism

2. : the greater part of the psychic apparatus accumulated through life experience that is not ordinarily integrated or available to consciousness yet is manifested as a powerful motive force in overt behavior especially in neurosis and is often revealed (as through dreams, slips of the tongue, or dissociated acts)

3. : collective unconscious — compare subconscious

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.