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Unconscious : adj
1: not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for
sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay
unconscious on the floor" [ant: conscious]
2: without conscious volition
3: (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving; "happily
unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens
[syn: unconscious(p)]
(noun)
1: that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place
of which the person is unaware [syn: unconscious mind]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Unconscious : \Un*con"scious\, a.
1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental
perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not
knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.
--Cowper.
2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an
unconscious cerebration. ``Unconscious causes.''
--Blackmore.
3. Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as,
a mule unconscious of the yoke. --Pope. --
Un*con"scious-ly, adv. -- Un*con"scious*ness, n.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Unconscious : Unconscious: 1) Interruption of awareness of oneself and one's surroundings, lack of the ability to notice or respond to stimuli in the environment. A person may become unconscious due to
oxygen deprivation, shock, central nervous system depressants such as alcohol and drugs, or injury. 2) In psychology, that part of thought and emotion that happens outside everyday awareness.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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