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Definition of Unconscious
1. Adjective. Not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead. "Lay unconscious on the floor"
Similar to: Cold, Comatose, Innocent, Insensible, Senseless, Kayoed, Knocked Out, Ko'd, Out, Stunned, Nonconscious, Semicomatose, Subconscious
Antonyms: Conscious
Derivative terms: Unconsciousness
2. Noun. That part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware.
Generic synonyms: Brain, Head, Mind, Nous, Psyche
Terms within: Superego, Id
3. Adjective. Without conscious volition.
4. Adjective. (followed by 'of') not knowing or perceiving. "Happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"
Definition of Unconscious
1. a. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.
2. a. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.
Definition of Unconscious
1. Adjective. Not awake. ¹
2. Adjective. Without directed thought or awareness. ¹
3. Adjective. (sports) engaged in skilled performance without conscious control. ¹
4. Noun. (psychology) The unconscious mind ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Unconscious
1. conscious [n -ES] - See also: conscious
Medical Definition of Unconscious
1. 1. Not conscious. 2. In psychoanalysis, the psychic structure comprising the drives and feelings of which one is unaware. Synonym: insensible. Collective unconscious, in Jungian psychology, the combined engrams or memory potentials inherited from an individual's phylogenetic past. (05 Mar 2000)