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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subconscious
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mind
▪ He went searching for a taxi, his subconscious mind at work.
▪ Most people need to read something between five and twenty-one times before it is implanted in their subconscious minds.
▪ It was Freud who made the first extensive use of hypnosis to probe the depths of the subconscious mind.
▪ Strange thoughts about his recent past were torn from his subconscious mind, as if the thing was asking him questions.
▪ Deep in her subconscious mind the image of Lotta became one-dimensional, faded, crumpled, ceased to exist.
▪ It was the subconscious mind taking over again.
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His subconscious male bias clearly shows in the report.
▪ our subconscious desires
▪ the subconscious mind
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And they do this on a subconscious level.
▪ Deep in her subconscious mind the image of Lotta became one-dimensional, faded, crumpled, ceased to exist.
▪ Most people need to read something between five and twenty-one times before it is implanted in their subconscious minds.
▪ 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.
▪ We were here to change the subconscious.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our subconscious plays tricks with us sometimes and we may imagine that we are seeing things such as ghosts.
▪ These conflicting values waged war in my subconscious.
▪ When you go to sleep it is only the conscious mind that shuts down. The subconscious cannot do so.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And when they inject themselves into our national dialogue, it is worth asking what they reveal about our national subconscious.
▪ Her subconscious had registered and clung on to those unfortunate comments made during the course of the operation.
▪ It worked for six weeks, but then Moya's subconscious started waking her earlier.
▪ McKenna instructed me to relax and revealed that he would be communicating with my subconscious through my finger signals.
▪ Obviously my subconscious was just waiting for me to give it an opportunity.
▪ The ghost of Ken Noakes shrivelled and vanished from her subconscious.
▪ These connections continue to be explored by psychologists who have studied the relationships between evolutionary genetics and the subconscious.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subconscious

Subconscious \Sub*con"scious\, a.

  1. Occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness; -- said of states of the soul.

  2. Partially conscious; feebly conscious.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subconscious

1823, "not wholly conscious, feebly conscious" (implied in subconsciously), from sub- + conscious. First attested in De Quincey. The noun, in the psychological sense ("mental processes taking place without consciousness"), is attested from 1886, from adjectival sense "occurring in the mind, but not in consciousness;" earlier noun was subconsciousness (1845).

Wiktionary
subconscious

a. 1 partially conscious. 2 below the level of consciousness. n. that part of the mind that is not consciously perceived; one's innermost thoughts

WordNet
subconscious

n. psychic activity just below the level of awareness [syn: subconscious mind]

subconscious

adj. just below the level of consciousness

Wikipedia
Subconscious

In psychology, the subconscious is the part of consciousness that is not currently in focal awareness. The word "subconscious" represents an anglicized version of the French subconscient as coined by the psychologist Pierre Janet (1859-1947), who argued that underneath the layers of critical-thought functions of the conscious mind lay a powerful awareness that he called the subconscious mind.

Subconscious (album)

Subconscious is the second studio-album from American singer Samantha James under the label Om Records. The album was released on June 22, 2010, featuring the first single "Waves of Change" produced by Kaskade. Samantha confirmed on her Facebook profile that a music video for the track Subconscious will be shot in Los Angeles soon.

Subconscious (song)

"Subconscious" is the second single by American solo artist and singer Samantha James from her second album, Subconsious.

Usage examples of "subconscious".

Outsider was gone, vanished into the heart into the hidden subconscious of a billon linked minds.

Deep in a median level of his dark subconscious Britt is aware of the tiny island of light created here by the investigating teams, of how small and weak this island is against the many miles of misty blackness that press in from the vast moors and down from the infinite dark dome of galactic space above.

When you had access to the dream, you were in the hypnopompic state and your subconscious was open to you.

The hypnopompic state is an important time because the subconscious mind is open while you are conscious enough to give it direction.

It was in her subconscious memory, available to our drug interrogation at the Macho station because she was not aware of its significance.

Home Secretary perplexedly and with a trace of subconscious hostility.

The superconscious is reduced to the subconscious, the transpersonal is collapsed to the prepersonal, the emergence of the higher is reinterpreted as an irruption from the lower.

That night, watching the Captain and Rajuna couple and recouple, I found thoughts about debriefing and leave starting to rise from my subconscious.

I needed to know where my feelings began and ended and where his did, and what was only incubi and succubae drama lingering in our subconscious so Marlene could help purge us both.

Leibnitz commented, stroking his stubbled lip in a kind of subconscious mourning for his vanished beard, while Sara made an undervoiced comment of her own in the front seat.

And this subconscious, but unintermittent quest for the light that he had never seen left its imprint more and more deeply on his face, in an expression of undefined and tortured effort.

He had imagined, dreamed, hallucinated, dredging up wish fulfillments from his unpenitent subconscious, and none of it had happened.

Amanda for waltzing in here like Miss Ditz and playing guru-farm mind-games with the Boy Genius, but apparently his subconscious was too much of a gentleman to come up with a convincing scenario.

In spite of the knot of fear deep down in her subconscious Dolley went about her tasks as usual, entertaining guests, superintending the household, nursing her patient.

During such times, Steve Austin slipped into the deep unconsciousness of the electrosleep machine and was gone from the world, either suspended in timeless space or burdened with the dreams that suffused his subconscious.