unconscious
English
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌʌnˈkɒnʃəs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: un‧con‧scious
Adjective
[edit]unconscious (comparative more unconscious, superlative most unconscious)
- Not awake; having no awareness (usually as the result of a head injury).
- Synonyms: insentient, oblivious, out of it, out on one's feet, unaware, down for the count, under, lost to the world, senseless
- After the anesthetist administered the general anesthetic the patient was unconscious.
- 2026 March 18, Greg Morse, “1996 crash driving freight reforms”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 51:
- The firefighters put on breathing apparatus and managed to find the injured. In one case, they were almost too late - one of the bystanders who had helped with the initial rescue attempts had been reported missing. They were later found unconscious, having been overcome by the fumes.
- (psychology) Without directed thought or awareness.
- Synonym: (non-technical) subconscious
- My sudden fright was an unconscious response.
- 1884, Margaret Oliphant, The Wizard's Son:
- It was intolerable, he felt, to sit and eat in presence of that silent figure partly turned away from him, jotting down the different amounts on a bit of paper, and absorbed in that occupation as if unconscious of his presence.
- 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 49:
- Reshaping [of British Railways] was far from perfect. It was tainted by statistical overreach, the unconscious biases of its author, and by the political demands being placed upon the BRB by government.
- (sports) engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
- Synonyms: in the zone, on a roll
- 1998, Charles Rosen, The Cockroach Basketball League, page 144:
- Sam is unconscious, filling it, drilling it from every conceivable angle. Lem is awful and Cooper seems confused. Josh shoots too often.
- 1999, Joseph Leininger, Terry Whalin, Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, page 10:
- "I was unconscious," the basketball player gushes. "It seemed like everything I threw up toward the basket went straight in."
- 2002, Alexander Wolff, Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure, page 292:
- Someone who has reeled off a string of baskets will say, "I was unconscious," as if he were following the Zen injunction to be mindful while suspending thought.
Coordinate terms
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[edit]not awake
without directed thought or awareness
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Noun
[edit]unconscious (plural unconsciouses)
- (psychology) That part of mind that is not consciously perceived.
- Synonyms: subconscious, subconsciousness, subconscious mind
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 135:
- Because the unconscious is outside time, it can perceive transformations beyond the limits of the ego.
Derived terms
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[edit]that part of mind that is not consciously perceived
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Further reading
[edit]- Raymond Williams (1983), “Unconscious”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 320.
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