conscience

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From Middle English conscience, from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”) (a calque of Ancient Greek σῠνείδησῐς (sŭneídēsĭs)), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”), from com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”).

142 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: gewete — moral sense
• Albanian: ndërgjegje — moral sense
• Northern Altai: уйат (uyat) — moral sense
• Southern Altai: уйат (uyat) — moral sense
• Amharic: ህሊና (həlina) — moral sense
• Arabic: ضَمِير (ḍamīr) — moral sense
• Arabic: طَوِيَّة (ṭawiyya) — moral sense
• Arabic: وِجْدَان (wijdān) — moral sense
• Armenian: խիղճ (xiġč) — moral sense
• Azerbaijani: vicdan — moral sense
• Azerbaijani: insaf — moral sense
• Belarusian: со́весць (sóvjescʹ) — moral sense
• Belarusian: со́весьць (sóvjesʹcʹ) — moral sense
• Belarusian: сумле́нне (sumljénnje) — moral sense
• Belarusian: сумле́ньне (sumljénʹnje) — moral sense
• Bengali: বিবেক (bibek) — moral sense
• Bulgarian: съ́вест (sǎ́vest) — moral sense
• Burmese: အသိတရား (a.si.ta.ra:) — moral sense
• Carpathian Rusyn: со́вість (sóvistʹ) — moral sense
• Catalan: consciència — moral sense
• Chinese Cantonese: 良心 (loeng4 sam1) — moral sense
• Chinese Cantonese: 天良 (tin1 loeng4) — moral sense
• Chinese Mandarin: 良心 (liángxīn) — moral sense
• Chinese Mandarin: 天良 (tiānliáng) — moral sense
• Coptic: ⲥⲩⲛⲏⲇⲉⲥⲓⲥ (sunēdesis) — moral sense
• Czech: svědomí — moral sense
• Danish: samvittighed — moral sense
• Dutch: geweten — moral sense
• Dutch: gewisse — moral sense
• Esperanto: konscienco — moral sense
• Estonian: südametunnistus — moral sense
• Estonian: süüme — moral sense
• Faroese: samvitska — moral sense
• Finnish: omatunto — moral sense
• French: conscience — moral sense
• West-Frisian: gewisse — moral sense
• Friulian: cusience — moral sense
• Friulian: cušience — moral sense
• Galician: conciencia — moral sense
• Georgian: ნამუსი (namusi) — moral sense
• Georgian: სინდისი (sindisi) — moral sense
• German: Gewissen — moral sense
• Greek: συνείδηση (syneídisi) — moral sense
• Ancient Greek: συνείδησις (suneídēsis) — moral sense
• Hebrew: מַצְפּוּן (matspún) — moral sense
• Hindi: विवेक (vivek) — moral sense
• Hindi: अन्तरात्मा (antarātmā) — moral sense
• Hindi: अंतःकरण (antaḥkaraṇ) — moral sense
• Hungarian: lelkiismeret — moral sense
• Icelandic: samviska — moral sense
• Ido: koncienco — moral sense
• Indonesian: hati nurani — moral sense
• Ingrian: sovesti — moral sense
• Irish: coinsias — moral sense
• Old Irish: cocubus — moral sense
• Italian: coscienza — moral sense
• Japanese: 良心 (ryōshin) — moral sense
• Kazakh: намыс (namys) — moral sense
• Kazakh: ұят (ūät) — moral sense
• Kazakh: ұждан (ūjdan) — moral sense
• Kazakh: ождан (ojdan) — moral sense
• Kazakh: ар (ar) — moral sense
• Kazakh: ар-ождан (ar-ojdan) — moral sense
• Khmer: មនសិការ (mĕəʼnĕəʼsekaa) — moral sense
• Korean: 양심 (yangsim) — moral sense
• Korean: 량심 (ryangsim) — moral sense
• Kyrgyz: уят (uyat) — moral sense
• Kyrgyz: намыс (namıs) — moral sense
• Kyrgyz: ынсап (ınsap) — moral sense
• Kyrgyz: ыйман (ıyman) — moral sense
• Lao: ມະໂນທັມ (ma nō tham) — moral sense
• Latin: cōnscientia — moral sense
• Latvian: sirdsapziņa — moral sense
• Lithuanian: są́žinė — moral sense
• Macedonian: совест (sovest) — moral sense
• Malay: kesedaran — moral sense
• Malayalam: മനസ്സാക്ഷി (manassākṣi) — moral sense
• Maltese: kuxjenza — moral sense
• Māori: ngākau manako — moral sense
• Māori: ngākau whakawā — moral sense
• Mongolian: ухамсар (uxamsar) — moral sense
• Khiamniungan Naga: séi — moral sense
• Norwegian Bokmål: samvittighet — moral sense
• Occitan: consciéncia — moral sense
• Church Slavic: съвѣсть (sŭvěstĭ) — moral sense
• Old English: inġehyġd — moral sense
• Old English: inġeþōht — moral sense
• Old Norse: samvizka — moral sense
• Pannonian Rusyn: совисц (sovisc) — moral sense
• Pashto: وجدان (wejdān) — moral sense
• Pashto: ضمير (zamīr) — moral sense
• Iranian Persian: وِجْدان (vejdân) — moral sense
• Iranian Persian: وُجْدان (vojdân) — moral sense
• Iranian Persian: ضَمیر (zamir) — moral sense
• Iranian Persian: باطِن (bâten) — moral sense
• Pohnpeian: ngilenloale — moral sense
• Polish: sumienie — moral sense
• Old Polish: sąmnienie — moral sense
• Portuguese: consciência — moral sense
• Punjabi: ਜ਼ਮੀਰ (zamīr) — moral sense
• Romanian: conștiință — moral sense
• Russian: со́весть (sóvestʹ) — moral sense
• Sanskrit: मनस्साक्षिन् (manassākṣin) — moral sense
• Sanskrit: अन्तःकरण (antaḥkaraṇa) — moral sense
• Scottish Gaelic: cogais — moral sense
• Serbo-Croatian: са́вест — moral sense
• Serbo-Croatian: са́вјест — moral sense
• Serbo-Croatian: sávest — moral sense
• Serbo-Croatian: sávjest — moral sense
• Slovak: svedomie — moral sense
• Slovene: vest — moral sense
• Spanish: conciencia — moral sense
• Swahili: dhamiri — moral sense
• Swedish: samvete — moral sense
• Tagalog: budhi — moral sense
• Tajik: виҷдон (vijdon) — moral sense
• Tajik: замир (zamir) — moral sense
• Tajik: ботин (botin) — moral sense
• Tatar: вөҗдан (wöcdan) — moral sense
• Telugu: అంతరాత్ (antarāt) — moral sense
• Thai: สํานึก (sǎm-nʉ́k) — moral sense
• Thai: มโนธรรม (má-noo-tam) — moral sense
• Thai: จิตสํานึก — moral sense
• Tigrinya: ሕልና (ḥəlna) — moral sense
• Turkish: vicdan — moral sense
• Turkish: insaf — moral sense
• Ottoman Turkish: وجدان (vicdan) — moral sense
• Ottoman Turkish: ضمیر (zamir) — moral sense
• Turkmen: wyjdan — moral sense
• Turkmen: ynsap — moral sense
• Ukrainian: со́вість (sóvistʹ) — moral sense
• Ukrainian: сумлі́ння (sumlínnja) — moral sense
• Urdu: ضَمِیر (zamīr) — moral sense
• Urdu: باطِن (bātin) — moral sense
• Urdu: اِیمان (īmān) — moral sense
• Uyghur: ۋىجدان (wijdan) — moral sense
• Uyghur: ئىنساپ (insap) — moral sense
• Uzbek: vijdon — moral sense
• Uzbek: insof — moral sense
• Vietnamese: lương tâm — moral sense
• Welsh: cydwybod — moral sense
• Yiddish: געוויסן (gevisn) — moral sense