subconsciousness
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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.
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“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 ● Mar. 3, 2026
“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 ● Dec. 1, 2022
One especially sumptuous song, “Enzo Gabriel,” cites the most popular name for newborn boys in Brazil in 2018 and 2019 as evidence of a national hivemind, or maybe even a collective subconsciousness.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021
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 ● Sep. 2, 2020
In many cases the subconsciousness knows what is the matter, and will tell at once—a secret that is completely hidden from the consciousness.
From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton
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