inconscient
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- inconsciently adverb
Etymology
Origin of inconscient
1880–85; in- 3 + conscient conscious (< French conscient ) < Latin conscient-, stem of consciēns, present participle of conscīre, originally, to have on one's conscience, equivalent to con- con- + scīre to know
Example Sentences
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For what were these ancient manipulators of ideas, prestidigitators of a vanished world of thought, but the forbears of the long line of theorists of whom Fulvia was the last inconscient mouthpiece?
From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith
In minerals there are "constant tendencies" which are nothing but obscure wills; what we currently term weight, fluidity, impenetrability, electricity, chemical affinities, are nothing but natural wills or inconscient wills.
From Initiation into Philosophy by Faguet, Émile
He turned heroically, resolved to lay down the law, and his stern eyes encountered hers, so troubling and so untroubled, tempting and yielding—glorified and inconscient.
From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen
There are few sights more ominous than that of a crowd thus observing itself, watching in inconscient suspense for the unknown crisis which its own passions have engendered.
From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith
I mean: that he's an inconscient instrument of goodness, as it were?
From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Wharton, Edith
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