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Definition: PRECONSCIOUS |
PRECONSCIOUSAdjective1. Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness. |
Date "PRECONSCIOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Any mental impression that is forgotten for the time being but needs only slight effort to bring it back to mind. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| "PRECONSCIOUS" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PRECONSCIOUS" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PRECONSCIOUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | forbevidst. (various references) | ||||
French | préconscient. (various references) | ||||
German | Vorbewusstes. (various references) | ||||
Italian | preconscio. (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 下意識 (subconscious, unconscious). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | かいしき (solution, subconscious, unconscious). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | econsciouspray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PRECONSCIOUS": preconsciouses, preconsciously. (additional references) | |
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"PRECONSCIOUS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: precancerous, precoscious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PRECONSCIOUS" (pronounced 'Pre*con""scious'): Conscious, self-conscious, semiconscious, subconscious, unconscious. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: censorious, concourses, percussion, precocious, procession, supersonic, uroscopies. | |
-3 letters: coercions, coinsures, concourse, conscious, conspires, coprinces, coreopsis, incorpses, occupiers, pecorinos, poisoners, scorpions, succories. | |
-4 letters: circuses, coercion, coinsure, conciser, conioses, conspire, coprince, corneous, cornices, cornuses, corpuses, crispens, croceins, crocuses, erosions, incorpse, necrosis, neurosis, occupier, occupies, pecorino, pocosins, poisoner, poorness, pouncers, precious, princess, pruinose, puccoons, resinous, ropiness. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: hyperconscious, precociousness, preconsciouses, preconsciously. | |
+3 letters: psychoneurotics. | |
+4 letters: precociousnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 45 43 4F 4E 53 43 49 4F 55 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . -.-. --- -. ... -.-. .. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01000101 01000011 01001111 01001110 01010011 01000011 01001001 01001111 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R E C O N S C I O U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0045 0043 004F 004E 0053 0043 0049 004F 0055 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)505239374948533743495553 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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