Unconscious meaning

What does “unconscious” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“unconscious” is a noun and adjective with 4 meanings. Its most common meaning is: that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware.

unconscious

noun

  1. that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware

adjective

  1. not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead

    “lay unconscious on the floor”

    Oppositesconscious
  2. without conscious volition

  3. (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving

    “happily unconscious of the new calamity at home”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University

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