SUBCONSCIOUS

Subconscious

In psychology, the subconscious is the part of consciousness that is not currently in focal awareness. The word subconscious is an anglicized version of the French subconscient as coined by the psychologist Pierre Janet, who argued that underneath the layers of critical thought functions of the conscious mind lay a powerful awareness that he called the subconscious mind. Because there is a limit to the information that can be held in conscious focal awareness, a storehouse of one's knowledge and prior experience is needed; this is the subconscious.

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subconscious

Noun

the subconscious

  1. that part of the mind that is not consciously perceived; one's innermost thoughts
    A person can sometimes wake up knowing the solution to a problem that their subconscious has been working on.

Adjective

  1. partially conscious.
  2. below the level of consciousness.
    The sense of smell can be a subconscious influence on our actions.


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