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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“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
Some of their pictures still lurk in our collective subconsciousness as categorical representations of certain people, places or moments in history.
From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2017
Under chloroform, or other anaesthetics, patients often recover for the time being forgotten facts of experience, and sometimes appear to make momentary contact with their subconsciousness and to exhibit therein another personality.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans
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