inconscient
Americanadjective
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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
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Kate Orme was not without an amused perception of her future husband's point of view; but she could enter into it with the tolerance which allows for the inconscient element in all our judgments.
From Sanctuary by Edith Wharton
On Selden's part, no doubt, the wound inflicted was inconscient; he had never guessed her foolish secret; but Lily—Lily must have known!
From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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 Edith Wharton
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 Émile Faguet
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 Edith Wharton
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