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Definition of subconscious
: existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness a subconscious motive
subconsciously
adverbsubconsciousness
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Recent Examples of subconscious from the Web
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There is a lot of chaos and emotive imagery that doesn’t have any distinct representational meaning but illustrates the various places our collective subconscious can go.
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The legacy of the former Soviet Union looms large in the collective subconscious.
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The repetitive movement eventually becomes subconscious.
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Your habit of passively avoiding discussing challenging issues could be interpreted here as an immature (or subconscious) bid to force the matter.
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Let the subconscious brain respond without thinking.
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Also, the whole subconscious state thing seems like a load of BS.
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Animal therapy makes us aware of this cross-species interconnectivity on the purest, subconscious level.
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Freud would stand by such propositions, and no doubt some losses really are occasioned by subconscious emotion, or at least can be convincingly explained that way after the fact.
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We're rarely aware, or at least fully aware, of our subconscious mental activity. But subconscious thought does affect our feelings and behavior, and it's often revealed in dreams, artistic expression, and slips of the tongue. The subconscious mind can be a hiding place for anxiety, a source of creativity, and often the reason behind our own mysterious behavior.
First Known Use of subconscious
circa 1834
Other Psychology Terms
subconscious
Definition of subconscious
: the mental activities just below the threshold of consciousness
Examples of subconscious in a Sentence
A person's behavior can be influenced by urges that exist only in the subconscious.
Those feelings had been hidden in her subconscious.
First Known Use of subconscious
1878
Other Psychology Terms
SUBCONSCIOUS Defined for English Language Learners
subconscious
playDefinition of subconscious for English Language Learners
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: existing in the part of the mind that a person is not aware of : existing in the mind but not consciously known or felt
subconscious
Definition of subconscious for English Language Learners
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: the part of a person's mind that has ideas, feelings, etc., that the person is not aware of
Medical Dictionary
Medical Definition of subconscious
1: existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness : affecting thought, feeling, and behavior without entering awareness subconscious motives a subconscious reflex
2: imperfectly conscious : partially but not fully aware the persistence of subconscious dream activity for several minutes after waking—Psychological Abstracts
subconsciously
adverbsubconsciousness
nounsubconscious
Medical Definition of subconscious
: the mental activities just below the threshold of consciousness; also : the aspect of the mind concerned with such activities—compare unconscious
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