noun
Meaning 1
The state of being subconscious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
subconsciousness
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noun
Meaning 2
a state of mind not immediately available to consciousness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cognitive state, state of mind
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English subconscious Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English subconsciousness From subconscious + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: падсвядо́масць (padsvjadómascʹ) — state of being subconscious
- Bulgarian: подсъзна́ние (podsǎznánie) — state of being subconscious
- Chinese Mandarin: 潛意識 /潜意识 (qiányìshí) — state of being subconscious
- Chinese Mandarin: 下意識 /下意识 (xiàyìshí) — state of being subconscious
- Czech: podvědomí — state of being subconscious
- Dutch: onderbewustzijn — state of being subconscious
- Estonian: alateadvus — state of being subconscious
- French: subconscience — state of being subconscious
- German: Unterbewusstsein — state of being subconscious
- Irish: fo-chomhfhios — state of being subconscious
- Japanese: 潜在意識 (senzai ishiki) — state of being subconscious
- Norwegian Bokmål: underbevissthet — state of being subconscious
- Polish: podświadomość — state of being subconscious
- Russian: подсозна́ние (podsoznánije) — state of being subconscious
- Slovak: podvedomie — state of being subconscious
- Swedish: undermedvetenhet — state of being subconscious
- Tagalog: kubmalay — state of being subconscious
- Turkish: bilinçaltı — state of being subconscious
- Ukrainian: підсвідо́мість (pidsvidómistʹ) — state of being subconscious