unconscious
pronunciation
How to pronounce unconscious in British English:
UK [ʌnˈkɒnʃəs]
How to pronounce unconscious in American English:
US [ʌnˈkɑːnʃəs]
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- Noun:
- that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware
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- Adjective:
- not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead
- without conscious volition
- (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving
Word Origin
- unconscious (adj.)
- 1712, "unaware, not marked by conscious thought," from un- (1) "not" + conscious. Meaning "temporarily insensible, knocked out" is recorded from 1860. Related: Unconsciously; unconsciousness. In psychology, the noun the unconscious (1876) is a loan-translation of German das Unbewusste. The adjective in this sense is recorded from 1912.
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Example
- 1. Everyone can be cured by the divine unconscious mind .
- 2. They injected mr dikko and laid him , unconscious , in a crate .
- 3. She gave a cry , and fell to the ground , unconscious .
- 4. Inside they found an unconscious mr dikko , and a very much awake israeli anaesthetist .
- 5. This theory of unconscious early memory is controversial .