Definition of Unconscious

1. Noun. That part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware.

Exact synonyms: Unconscious Mind
Generic synonyms: Brain, Head, Mind, Nous, Psyche
Terms within: Superego, Id

2. Adjective. Not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead. "Lay unconscious on the floor"

3. Adjective. Without conscious volition.

4. Adjective. (followed by 'of') not knowing or perceiving. "Happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"
Similar to: Incognizant, Unaware
Derivative terms: Unconsciousness

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)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Unconscious

unconnectedness
unconning
unconquerability
unconquerable
unconquerableness
unconquerably
unconquered
unconquering
unconscientious
unconscientiousness
unconscionabilities
unconscionability
unconscionable
unconscionableness
unconscionably
unconscious (current term)
unconscious(p)
unconscious (psychology)
unconscious mind
unconscious process
unconsciouses
unconsciously
unconsciousness
unconscripted
unconsecrate
unconsecrated
unconsecrates
unconsecrating
unconsentaneous

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