unconsciousness
unconscious
noun
uk /ʌnˈkɒn.ʃəs/ us /ʌnˈkɑːn.ʃəs/
 the unconscious
the part of your mind that contains feelings and thoughts that you do not know about, and that influences the way you behave潜意识

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unconscious | American Dictionary

unconscious
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ʌnˈkɑn·ʃəs/
not conscious :
The fall from his horse knocked him unconscious for several minutes.
Unconscious feelings or actions are ones you are not completely aware of:
unconscious anxiety
There’s an unconscious classification within the group.

unconsciously

adverbus/ʌnˈkɑn·ʃəs·li/
He unconsciously assumes that everyone agrees with him.
unconscious
noun[ U ]
 specializedus/ʌnˈkɑn·ʃəs/
(in psychoanalysis) the part of the mind you are not aware of but which influences behavior

Examples of unconscious

unconscious
Both help the modern subject to discover and to appropriate its unconscious and archaic dimension.
In these branches of science, cognitive systems producing intuitive beliefs are essentially unconscious ; the systems are already active in small children.
We now recognize that both automatic or unconscious impulses and conscious strategies work to control behavior.
Few of us have an intuitive understanding of the unconscious assumptions - the hidden politicalideological agendas - that shape our judgements, about language and other things.
He twice became unconscious but did not confess.
During the last two decades, empirical supports for the analytic capabilities of unconscious cognition have gradually waned.
They leave aside such grand challenges as the unconscious and focus on such workaday functions as - arithmetic calculation.
Recent studies in consciousness have shown that the categories of "conscious" and "unconscious" are not to be treated as oppositions.
However, our focus on consciousness - and the consequent mistrust of a cognitive unconscious - is hardly new.
Physical structures are grasped as embodied sensations, through an unconscious bodily mimesis.
Section 8 addresses such phenomena, and notably the data allegedly demonstrating the possibility of unconscious processing of semantic information.
A theory of the unconscious is implicit within the tradition of conservative thought in the nineteenth century.
In other words, our unconscious statistics greatly surpasses the simple univariate stuff - it runs to multidimensional scaling and beyond.
All these interpretations of unconscious congruity effects rest on the assumption that the primes are completely unavailable to awareness.
The knowledge of this womb is the knowledge of the unconscious.
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