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UK
/sʌbkˈɒnʃəsnəs/
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NOUN
- a state of mind not immediately available to consciousness
How To Use subconsciousness In A Sentence
- Owing to the restrictions from conventions , inertia, doctrinairism and subconsciousness, the new curriculum reform still remains on the surface of educational culture.
- According to them we can only know something of God by means of the vital immanence, that is, under favourable circumstances the need of the Divine dormant in our subconsciousness becomes conscious and arouses that religious feeling or experience in which God reveals himself to us (see MODERNISM). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- And then he drops into the depths of the moral subconsciousness from which the clear, clean waters of Walden Pond could not wash him: If the roadsteads of the spiritual ocean could be thus dragged, what rusty flukes of hope deceived and parted chain-cables of faith might again be windlassed aboard! enough to sink the finders craft, or stock new navies to the end of time. Theocritus on Cape Cod
- Social subconsciousness is the repressed social psychology.
- A neo-Georgian poet, disciple of FREUD, pacificist and vegetarian, will gladly pay five pounds to any psychopathic suggestionist who will extirpate from his subconsciousness the lingering relics of an antipathy to syncopated rhythms which retard his progress towards a complete mastery of the technique of amorphous bombination. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920
- Given that this particular antinovel is also an exploration of the chaotic subconscious of two schizophrenics, its sensate sex-and-violence imagery becomes doubly significant: a stream of subconsciousness that describes waking dreams while feeling like one.
- These mechanisms have been declared to reside or to have their origin in the subconsciousness or coconsciousness. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- In the same manner the discarnate being may find certain memories in the subconsciousness of the medium which will recall certain facts connected with his past earth life.