subconscious

Word family  noun subconscious unconscious consciousness unconsciousness adjective conscious ≠ unconscious subconscious adverb subconsciously consciously ≠ unconsciously

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Related topics: Psychology, psychiatry

sub·con·scious1 /sʌbˈkɒnʃəs $ -ˈkɑːn-/ adjective  MPsubconscious feelings, desires etc are hidden in your mind and affect your behaviour, but you do not know that you have them 〔感觉、欲望等〕下意识的，潜意识的 a subconscious fear of failure 对失败下意识的恐惧 —subconsciously adverb Subconsciously, he blames himself for the accident. 他潜意识里为那次事故自责。

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subconscious• We were here to change the subconscious.• our subconscious desires• And they do this on a subconscious level.• His subconscious male bias clearly shows in the report.• Reality was proving far more bizarre than anything Polly's subconscious mind had been conjuring up.• The subconscious mind is not haphazard in the way it works to protect you.• Deep in her subconscious mind the image of Lotta became one-dimensional, faded, crumpled, ceased to exist.• the subconscious mind• Most people need to read something between five and twenty-one times before it is implanted in their subconscious minds.

Related topics: Psychology, psychiatry

subconscious2 noun [singular]  MPthe part of your mind that has thoughts and feelings you do not know about 下意识，潜意识 SYN unconscious anger buried deep in the subconscious 深深埋藏在潜意识里的愤怒

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subconscious• The ghost of Ken Noakes shrivelled and vanished from her subconscious.• Her subconscious had registered and clung on to those unfortunate comments made during the course of the operation.• These conflicting values waged war in my subconscious.• Obviously my subconscious was just waiting for me to give it an opportunity.• McKenna instructed me to relax and revealed that he would be communicating with my subconscious through my finger signals.• And when they inject themselves into our national dialogue, it is worth asking what they reveal about our national subconscious.• Our subconscious plays tricks with us sometimes and we may imagine that we are seeing things such as ghosts.• It worked for six weeks, but then Moya's subconscious started waking her earlier.• These connections continue to be explored by psychologists who have studied the relationships between evolutionary genetics and the subconscious.• When you go to sleep it is only the conscious mind that shuts down. The subconscious cannot do so.

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subconscious

I

sub‧con‧scious¹ /sʌbˈkɒnʃəs $ -ˈkɑːn-/ adjectivesubconscious feelings, desires etc are hidden in your mind and affect your behaviour, but you do not know that you have them:
    a subconscious fear of failure
—subconsciously adverb:
    Subconsciously, he blames himself for the accident.

II

subconscious² noun [singular]the part of your mind that has thoughts and feelings you do not know about
   SYN  unconscious:
    anger buried deep in the subconscious
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ mind what you use to think and imagine things: My mind was full of big ideas. | I never know what's going on in her mind. | At the back of my mind I had the funny feeling that I’d met her somewhere before. | The same thoughts kept going through my mind and I couldn’t get to sleep.
   ▪ head the place where someone’s mind is – use this especially when talking about the thoughts that are in someone’s mind: I can't get him out of my head. | You need to get it into your head that you've done nothing wrong. | To keep myself calm, I counted to ten in my head. | She’s so quiet – you never quite know what’s going on inside her head (=what she is thinking).
   ▪ subconscious the part of your mind that influences the way you think or behave, even though you may not realize this is happening, and which makes you have dreams: She suddenly remembered a traumatic incident that had been buried deep in her subconscious. | During the daytime our conscious minds are active, but during the night the subconscious takes over.
   ▪ psyche formal someone’s mind, especially their feelings and attitudes, and the way these influence their character - used especially when talking about people's minds in general: The need for love is deeply buried in our psyche. | Freud has provided an account of the human psyche's stages of development. | The child is simply searching his psyche to find some past event that relates to his new experiences.
   ▪ mentality a particular way of thinking that a group of people have, especially one that you think is wrong or bad: I just don't understand the mentality of these people. | They all seem to have a kind of victim mentality, which makes them think that the world is permanently against them.
   ▪ the ego technical the part of your mind that gives you your sense of who you are - used especially in Freudian psychology: the rational world of the ego and the irrational world of the unconscious