Definition of Subconscious

1. Adjective. Just below the level of consciousness.

Similar to: Unconscious
Derivative terms: Subconsciousness

2. Noun. Psychic activity just below the level of awareness.
Exact synonyms: Subconscious Mind
Generic synonyms: Brain, Head, Mind, Nous, Psyche

Definition of Subconscious

1. a. Occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness; -- said of states of the soul.

Definition of Subconscious

1. Adjective. partially conscious. ¹

2. Adjective. below the level of consciousness. ¹

3. Noun. that part of the mind that is not consciously perceived; one's innermost thoughts ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subconscious

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Subconscious

subcomponent
subcomponents
subcompressed
subconcave
subconcussive
subcondensates
subconducting
subconfiguration
subconfigurations
subconfluence
subconfluent
subconformable
subcongenic
subconical
subconjunctival
subconscious
subconscious mind
subconsciouses
subconsciously
subconsciousness
subconstellation
subconstellations
subconsul
subconsuls
subcontinent
subcontinental
subcontinents
subcontract
subcontractable
subcontracted

Literary usage of Subconscious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1907)
"'HE Subconscious. By Joseph Jastrow. Boston and New York: Houghton. ... The third or theoretical part discusses the nature of the subconscious and he ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1903)
"THE STATUS OF THE Subconscious. By Professor JOSEPH JASTROW, University of Wisconsin. The interpretation to be given to that region of psychological ..."

3. Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg (1909)
"VI THE Subconscious THE story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none. But it may need many more words to make clear what that ..."

4. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"... we take them on their psy- 1 The reader will here please notice that in my exclusive reliance in the last lecture on the subconscious ' incubation' of ..."

5. Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human by Boris Sidis, Simon Philip Goodhart (1905)
"A., ' TRANSMUTATION OF Subconscious MESSAGES THE movement of the moment from the subconscious to the nucleus of self-consciousness may sometimes take a ..."

6. The Representative Significance of Form: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1909)
"Subconscious and Conscious Influences Found in all Intellection, but the Main Source of it Different in Religion, Science, and Art—Making it in Each ..."

7. The Representative Significance of Form: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1900)
"Subconscious and Conscious Influences Found in all Intellection, but the Main Source of it Different in Religion, Science, and Art—Making it in Each ..."

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