not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
2.
temporarily devoid of consciousness.
3.
not perceived at the level of awareness; occurring below the level of conscious thought:
an unconscious impulse.
4.
not consciously realized, planned, or done; without conscious volition or intent:
an unconscious social slight.
5.
not endowed with mental faculties:
the unconscious stones.
noun
6.
the unconscious, Psychoanalysis. the part of the mind containing psychic material that is only rarely accessible to awareness but that has a pronounced influence on behavior.
Since laughter is typically an unconscious, automatic response it is a useful measure for laying bare individual biases.
Other changes in awareness can occur without becoming unconscious.
What is so interesting about these photos is that they give us a way to think about how the unconscious works.
Those unconscious memories don't rely on the hippocampal region to be consolidated and stored.
Brain scan allows unconscious patient to communicate.
Frick's office, shot the tycoon three times and stabbed him with the file before workers pulled him off and beat him unconscious.
Every year, more than a hundred million people undergo surgery after being knocked unconscious by inhaled anesthetics.
Our engagement there has been until now a little unconscious.
But after so many years of taking the same walk, the journey has etched itself on his unconscious.
Researchers adapt a test for unconscious bias to tap secrets of the heart.
British Dictionary definitions for unconscious
unconscious
/ʌnˈkɒnʃəs/
adjective
1.
lacking normal sensory awareness of the environment; insensible
2.
not aware of one's actions, behaviour, etc: unconscious of his bad manners
3.
characterized by lack of awareness or intention: an unconscious blunder
4.
coming from or produced by the unconscious: unconscious resentment
noun
5.
(psychoanal) the part of the mind containing instincts, impulses, images, and ideas that are not available for direct examination See also collective unconsciousCompare subconscious, preconscious
Derived Forms
unconsciously, adverb
Word Origin and History for unconscious
adj.
1712, "unaware, not marked by conscious thought," from un- (1) "not" + conscious. Meaning "temporarily insensible, knocked out" is recorded from 1860. In psychology, the noun the unconscious (1884) is a loan-translation of German das Unbewusste. The adjective in this sense is recorded from 1912.
unconscious in Medicine
unconscious un·con·scious (ŭn-kŏn'shəs) adj.
Of or in a state of unconsciousness; not conscious.
Occurring in the absence of conscious awareness or thought, as an emotion or motive.
Without conscious control; involuntary or unintended.
n. In psychoanalytic theory, the division of the mind containing elements of psychic makeup, such as memories or repressed desires, that are not subject to conscious perception or control but that often affect conscious thoughts and behavior. un·con'scious·lyadv.
unconscious in Culture
unconscious definition
The part of the psyche lying far below consciousness and not easily raised into consciousness. In Freudian psychology, the unconscious cannot be directly observed with the conscious mind, but it has its own processes and deeply affects conscious thought.