Conscience Definition

kŏnshəns
noun
A knowledge or sense of right and wrong, with an urge to do right; moral judgment that opposes the violation of a previously recognized ethical principle and that leads to feelings of guilt if one violates such a principle.
Webster's New World
A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement.
A document that serves as the nation's conscience.
American Heritage Medicine
Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct.
A person of unflagging conscience.
American Heritage Medicine
Inner thoughts or feelings.
Webster's New World
Consciousness.
Webster's New World
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conscience
Plural:
consciences

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Origin of Conscience

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin cōnscientia from cōnsciēns cōnscient- present participle of cōnscīre to be conscious of com- intensive pref. com– scīre to know skei- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”), from com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”).

    From Wiktionary

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