noun
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Unconscious mind
adjective
definition
Not awake; having no awareness.
example
After the anesthetist administered the general anesthetic the patient was unconscious.
definition
Without directed thought or awareness.
example
My sudden fright was an unconscious response.
definition
Engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
Examples of unconscious in a Sentence
He was unconscious and lay like a distorted corpse.
He was unconscious and pale.
The girl remained unconscious as the man drove away.
You were unconscious and it was an emergency.
Her eyes were closed and she was obviously unconscious, flopping like a rag doll.
He hurried to the unconscious man's side.
Brady knelt beside the unconscious soldier.
Toby looked at the unconscious Immortal twice his size and back up at Rhyn.
Up to the time of the "Frost King" episode, I had lived the unconscious life of a little child; now my thoughts were turned inward, and I beheld things invisible.
He assures us that his tutor did not complain of any inaptitude on the pupil's part, and that the pupil was as happily unconscious of any on his own; but here he broke off.
Princess Mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure.
Taran drew the bow back and released the arrow, watching it pierce the unconscious woman's chest.
The attitude of the child toward his books should be that of unconscious receptivity.
She was alive but unconscious.
Darian was unconscious, his body convulsing.
He dropped the unconscious warlord and shoved the black creature into his mouth.
The little boy was unconscious.
Jenn's gaze lingered on the unconscious man's body.
She hit the wall hard and landed on the ground, unconscious.
She's in the hospital, still unconscious.
He was alive and unconscious.
She dropped on one knee beside Toby, who was unconscious.
The newly turned vamp slumped to the ground, unconscious.
And because the primitive peoples are unconscious and self-ignorant Homer is represented as being blind.
The conception of the Unconscious, by which von Hartmann describes his ultimate metaphysical principle, is not at bottom as paradoxical as it sounds, being merely a new and mysterious designation for the Absolute of German metaphysicians.
The Unconscious appears as a combination of the metaphysic of Hegel with that of Schopenhauer.
The Unconscious is both Will and Reason and the absolute all-embracing ground of all existence.
This latter is absolute misery, and to cure it the Unconscious evokes its Reason and with its aid creates the best of all possible worlds, which contains the promise of its redemption from actual existence by the emancipation of the Reason from its subjugation to the Will in the conscious reason of the enlightened pessimist.
An overwhelming majority of the people is illiterate and is practically unconscious of the defect.
They permitted themselves startling liberties when any one caressed them, crowding themselves almost into one's arms and helping themselves without ceremony to kisses, apparently unconscious of the impropriety of their conduct.
Toby was in Kris.s bed, the pale baby angel stripped down to his waist and unconscious.
I take it this guy is unconscious?
She dragged the unconscious commander to the floor and replaced him in the seat before the energy terminal, assessing the damage done.
His long time friend, the assassin, was bloodied and unconscious. The demons tossed Gabriel's body into a dark cell two down from Ully's before they left.
Ully was dropped to the ground at Toby's command. He hurried back to the Immortal, worried he'd be hurt. Ully was unconscious.
How long had she been unconscious?
The individual's happiness is indeed unattainable either here and now or hereafter and in the future, but he does not despair of ultimately releasing the Unconscious from its sufferings.
The conception of a redemption of the Unconscious also supplies the ultimate basis of von Hartmann's ethics.
During the periods the cottons have been cultivated, selection, conscious or unconscious, has been carried on, resulting in the raising, from the same stock probably, in different places, of well-marked forms, which, in the absence of the history of their origin, might be regarded as different species.
Probably by unconscious selection of surviving plants through long ages this type has been evolved in Guatemala, and experiments have been made to develop weevil-resistant races in the United States.
In this combination resides the doubtless unconscious but nevertheless real literary art of the composition.
The attempt to establish by argument the authority of faith is in reality the unconscious establishment of the authority of reason.
When the news of Ibrahim's overwhelming victory at Nessib (June 24, 1839) reached Constantinople, Mahmud lay dying and unconscious.
Kinloch, it is hunted by "tracking the animal on a single elephant until he is at last found in his lair, or perhaps standing quite unconscious PIG.
He displays his own vanity, frivolity and futile cleverness with much unconscious humour, but, it is only fair to allow, with some literary dexterity.
They had a mental deficiency of which they were unconscious, and, naturally enough, supposed that those who affirmed they were possessed of it were romancing."
He lingered for some days in an almost unconscious state, and died on the 27th of January 1814.
This may be so, but it can be admitted neither that Fichte's views underwent radical change, nor that the Wissenschaftslehre was ever regarded as in itself complete, nor that Fichte was unconscious of the apparent difference between his earlier and later utterances.
They were attached to it in numbers; they returned imbued with professional admiration for German military organization and science; with a conviction of German power; they became the conscious or unconscious agents of German policy.
Along with the charm of style, the great attraction of the writings of Erasmus is this unconscious freedom by which they are pervaded.