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unconscious process

n. a mental process that you are not directly aware of; "the process of denial" [syn: process]

Usage examples of "unconscious process".

Learning to ride had been such an unconscious process that she didn't know she would have to train Whinney to haul a load.

But when many men, without intending to alter the breed, have a nearly common standard of perfection, and all try to get and breed from the best animals, much improvement and modification surely but slowly follow from this unconscious process of selection, notwithstanding a large amount of crossing with inferior animals.

But whether or not the selection of wild edible plants by ancient hikers relied on conscious or unconscious criteria, the resulting evolution of wild plants into crops was at first an unconscious process.

Minako moved from slumber to wakefulness in the same unconscious process with which others put one foot in front of another.

As I'd noticed when I'd first seen him, he appeared to be completely unmarked, and I don't know whether it was some unconscious process of logical reasoning or some strange instinct that made me right away lift up the crackling ice-stiffened tunic j acket enough to see the black powder-ringed bullet hole in the middle of the spine.

Without knowing the unconscious process whereby he reached the conclusion, he judged he had found an ally, and perhaps a friend.

It's as if this other universe's inherent entropic nature is not a blind, unconscious process, but something actively malign.