subconscious
subconscious
Definition
sub·con·scious (sub kän′s̸həs)
adjective
- occurring without conscious perception, or with only slight perception, on the part of the individual: said of mental processes and reactions
- not fully conscious; imperfectly aware
sub·con′·sciously adverb
sub·con′·scious·ness noun
the subconscious
subconscious mental activity: a term, now obs. in psychiatry, that was formerly used to include the preconscious and the unconscious
subconscious
Synonyms
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modif.
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Synonyms
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Usage Examples
Converse of object
- become: At the astral death in heaven, the ego is forced to become subconscious.
- access: Accessing the subconscious He cites, for example, a non-autistic student whose calculating skills rival those of the best mathematical savants.
- have: Physical, visual and auditory stimuli can have powerful subconscious learning effects.
- allow: With hypnosis we relax, focus and close down the conscious mind allowing the subconscious to open.
- give: Abreaction gives the subconscious mind the opportunity to release the buried anxiety.
- make: What is the point of making the old ego subconscious at the moment of rebirth?
Preposition: at
- work: Could also be my subconscious at work... yikes!
Converse of subject
- guide: We're pushed or guided by the subconscious, and unaware of it.
Adjective modifier
- collective: Once established in the collective subconscious of policy makers, however, these ideas can be amazingly hard to dislodge.
- human: Also, however honest the researchers, there is enormous scope for the human subconscious to intrude in order to optimize the results.
- own: The call had come from her own creative subconscious.
- conscious: This picture sees the brain in terms of conscious plus subconscious.
- station's: How do we know the whole thing is not a product of the station's subconscious?
Modifies a noun
- mind: Using the subconscious mind is the fastest way to create calm.
- personality: The minute you got near that machine and opened the receiver, waves from your subconscious personality flowed into it.
- determinism: When anxiety becomes attached to the memory of an event it causes the problem of subconscious determinism.
- motivation: The problem that faces almost everyone is learning to change subconscious motivation.
- hatred: My self-analysis had made me aware of my intense level of subconscious hatred toward her.
- desire: About all men having a subconscious desire to kill their fathers.
Possessives
- client: These tangible metaphors become anchors or triggers, impressed upon the client's subconscious.
subconscious Quotes
Newartists must break a hole in the subconscious and go fishing there.
Little subconscious mind, say I each night, bring home the bacon.
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