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Definition: Subconscious |
SubconsciousAdjective1. Just below the level of consciousness. Noun1. Psychic activity just below the level of awareness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "subconscious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
Synonym: SubconsciousSynonym: subconscious mind (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The subconscious is not directly accessible to ordinary introspection , but is is capable of being "tapped" and "interpreted" by special methods and techniques such as random association , dream analysis and verbal slips ( commonly known as a Freudian slip ),examined and conducted during psychotherapy . Thoughts , feelings and urges that are repressed are all present in the subconscious mind and " issues " need to be " worked out " with professionals skilled in the field of mental health and mental illness .
Certain philosophers preceding Sigmund Freud such as Leibniz and Schopenhauer developed ideas foreshadowing the subconscious. The new medical science of psychoanalysis established by Freud and his disciples popularized this and similar notions such as the role of the libido (sex drive) and the self-destructive urge of thanatos (death wish) ,and the famous Oedipus complex wherein a son seeks to "kill" his father to make love to his own mother.( Shades of incest ).
Knowledge of the subconscious has been exploited by marketing strategists employed by corporations to either play on hidden fears and secret desires buried in the common subconscious. Teams of psychologists are hired to do market research and understand the psycholgy of buying in order to use subliminal messages in advertising campaigns.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Subconscious mind."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intellect | Adjective: intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual; ghostly; psychical, psychological; cerebral; animastic; brainy; hyperphysical, superphysical; subconscious, subliminal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Subconscious |
| English words defined with "subconscious": subconsciously, surrealism. (references) |
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Screenplays | I have a history with my witchy subconscious making things go kerfloopey. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Tell my subconscious that. (Batman Beyond; writing credit: Hilary Bader; Stan Berkowitz) | |
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W. Clement Stone | You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition. |
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Health | Guilt feelings may stem from the often subconscious feeling that disease is a punishment for being bad. Your child, therefore, needs frequent reassurances that he or she has done nothing wrong and is loved. (references) | |
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| "Subconscious" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.99% of the time. "Subconscious" is used about 163 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 53.99% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 46.01% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Total | 100.00% | 163 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "subconscious": subconscious mind ♦ the subconscious. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "subconscious": subconscious-mind. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "subconscious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i nënndërgjegjeshëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ما دون الوعي, دون الوعي (subliminal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | подсъзнателен (subliminal), подсъзнание (subconsciousness, the unconscious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 下意识 (subliminal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | podvìdomý, podvìdomí (unconscious), bezdìèný (inadvertent, reflex, unwitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نیمه هشیار, نیمه اگاه (Semiconscious), ناخوداگاه (Unaware, Unawares, Unconscious), درحالت ناخوداگاهی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | alitajuinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | subconscient (the subconscious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unterbewusstsein (subconsciousness), unterbewusst (subliminal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υποσυνείδητοσ (subliminal), υποσυνείδητο (subconsciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תת י"ע, תת תו"עתי (subliminal), תת "כרתי (subliminal), תת "כר" (the unconscious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tudatalatti (subliminal, the unconscious, unconscious), tudat alatti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | subcosciente, subconscio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 潜在意識 , 意識下 , 下意識 (preconscious, unconscious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せ"ざいいしき, かいしき (preconscious, solution, unconscious), いしきか. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 재 의식. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fo-chooinsheansagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubconscioussay subconsciente (subliminal). (various references) subconştient (sub-conscious, subliminal). (various references) подсознательный (subliminal). (various references) podsvestan. (various references) subconsciente. (various references) undermedveten (unconscious). (various references) อยู่ในจิตใต้สำนึก, จิตใต้สำนึก. (various references) bilinçaltı (depth, id, subliminal, the subconscious), şuuraltı. (various references) підсвідомість (subliminal mind), підсвідомий (subliminal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "subconscious": subconsciouses, subconsciously, subconsciousness, subconsciousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Subconscious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: subconcious, subconscience, subconsciou. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "subconscious" (pronounced subkÄ"nshus) |
| 6 | -k Ä" n sh u s | conscious, unconscious. |
| 4 | -n sh u s | conscientious, contentious, pretentious, tendentious, unpretentious. |
| 3 | -sh u s | ambitious, anxious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, capacious, capricious, cautious, delicious, efficacious, expeditious, facetious, factitious, fallacious, ferocious, fictitious, flirtatious, fractious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, inauspicious, infectious, injudicious, judicious, loquacious, luscious, malicious, nauseous, noxious, nutritious, obnoxious, ostentatious, overambitious, pernicious, precious, precocious, predaceous, propitious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, repetitious, salacious, sebaceous, seditious, semiprecious, spacious, specious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, tenacious, vexatious, vicious, vivacious, voracious. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-c-i-n-o-o-s-s-s-u-u" | |
-3 letters: conscious. | |
-4 letters: couscous, subsonic. | |
-5 letters: concuss, cousins, incubus, niobous, nocuous, obconic, sinuous, succubi, succuss. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-c-i-n-o-o-s-s-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: subconsciouses, subconsciously. | |
+4 letters: subconsciousness. | |
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