subconsciousness

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1. The part of the psyche just below consciousness and capable of bursting into consciousness. For example, a repressed sexual desire is part of our subconsciousness, although we may at some time become conscious of it.

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The subconscious is not the same as the unconscious. Blinking, for example, is usually unconscious and occasionally conscious, but never subconscious.

Example Sentences

“Because when I started writing this book, absolutely, in my deep subconsciousness, I judged these women. I thought, how on earth could they not have known what their husbands were doing?”

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s like some national subconsciousness that resurfaces,” said Geremie R. Barmé, a scholar in New Zealand who studies dissent in China.

From New York Times

The line could hardly describe Kaufman better, all the more so because it’s spoken by a character that may or may not be a figment of subconsciousness.

From Washington Times

Here we had the US president in not just a stream but a full torrent of subconsciousness.

From The Guardian

Since then, he said, “The play never left my subconsciousness.”

From Washington Post

Related Words

• consciousness
• mind
• recollection
• remembrance
• thought