Definition of Nonconscious

1. Adjective. Concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness. "Nonconscious psychic processes"

Similar to: Unconscious

2. Adjective. Relating to the lack of consciousness of inanimate things.

Definition of Nonconscious

1. Adjective. Not conscious ¹

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Definition of Nonconscious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonconscious

noncongruently
noncongruous
nonconical
nonconiferous
nonconjectural
nonconjoined
nonconjoint
nonconjugated
nonconjugative
nonconjugative plasmid
nonconnected
nonconnection
nonconnections
nonconnotative
nonconscientious
nonconscious (current term)
nonconsciously
nonconsecutive
nonconsecutively
nonconsensual
nonconsensually
nonconsensus
nonconsequent
nonconsequential
nonconservation
nonconservations
nonconservative
nonconserved
nonconserving
nonconsideration

Literary usage of Nonconscious

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

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
"It could not direct, for it was a nonconscious organ, ... But the nonconscious were the forerunners of the conscious. ..."

2. Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning: A Study in Human Freedom by Solomon Francis Gingerich (1911)
"This mass of experience furnishes the lower content and outer material for the will, and brings it to the very door of the outer and nonconscious world; ..."

3. Readings in Social Problems by Albert Benedict Wolfe (1916)
"The apparently automatic and often nonconscious operation of these checks must not blind us to the historical power which has established and perpetuated ..."

4. Working with the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker (1922)
"Industrially nonconscious group. The great problem of the immediate future is to get groups 1 and 3 into Group 2. The more idealistic problem of the more ..."

5. The Theory of Psychoanalysis by Carl Gustav Jung (1915)
"... that there are nonconscious systems which, by analogy with conscious phantasies, can be described as phantasy-systerns of the unconscious. ..."

6. Child Victimization: Maltreatment, Bullying and Dating Violence, Prevention ...by Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett, Sarah M. Giacomoni by Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett, Sarah M. Giacomoni (2005)
"nonconscious behavioral confirmation processes: The self-fulfilling consequences of automatic stereotype activation. Journal of Experimental Social ..."

7. When I'm 64 by Laura L. Carstensen, Christine R. Hartel (2006)
"Both transformational processes seem to be largely automatic and nonconscious. For example, studies show that people who forecasted their emotional ..."

8. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
"It could not direct, for it was a nonconscious organ, ... But the nonconscious were the forerunners of the conscious. ..."

9. Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning: A Study in Human Freedom by Solomon Francis Gingerich (1911)
"This mass of experience furnishes the lower content and outer material for the will, and brings it to the very door of the outer and nonconscious world; ..."

10. Readings in Social Problems by Albert Benedict Wolfe (1916)
"The apparently automatic and often nonconscious operation of these checks must not blind us to the historical power which has established and perpetuated ..."

11. Working with the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker (1922)
"Industrially nonconscious group. The great problem of the immediate future is to get groups 1 and 3 into Group 2. The more idealistic problem of the more ..."

12. The Theory of Psychoanalysis by Carl Gustav Jung (1915)
"... that there are nonconscious systems which, by analogy with conscious phantasies, can be described as phantasy-systerns of the unconscious. ..."

13. Child Victimization: Maltreatment, Bullying and Dating Violence, Prevention ...by Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett, Sarah M. Giacomoni by Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett, Sarah M. Giacomoni (2005)
"nonconscious behavioral confirmation processes: The self-fulfilling consequences of automatic stereotype activation. Journal of Experimental Social ..."

14. When I'm 64 by Laura L. Carstensen, Christine R. Hartel (2006)
"Both transformational processes seem to be largely automatic and nonconscious. For example, studies show that people who forecasted their emotional ..."

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