conscience
nounEtymology
From Middle English conscience, from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”), from com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”).
- derived from conscientia
- derived from conscience
- inherited from conscience
Definitions
The ethical or moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own…
The ethical or moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions.
- Your conscience is your highest authority.
- 1949, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist, Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.
- As for Grierson, he poured liquor into himself as if it were so much soothing syrup, demonstrating that a good digestion is the highest form of good conscience.
A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person,…
A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.
Consciousness
Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
- Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
The neighborhood
- neighborconscientious
- neighborconscientiously
- neighborconscientiousness
- neighborconscionable
- neighborconsciousness
- neighborsynteresis
Derived
a good conscience is a soft pillow, bad conscience, conscience clause, conscienced, conscienceless, consciencelike, conscience money, conscience-money, conscience-proof, conscience round, conscience vote, consciencewise, consciencism, consciencist, conscientious, examination of conscience, exile of conscience, freedom of conscience, guilty conscience, in all conscience, in conscience, in good conscience, liberty of conscience, make conscience, my conscience, of all conscience, on one's conscience, pang of conscience, prisoner of conscience, pseudoconscience, speak one's conscience, unconscienced
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at conscience. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at conscience. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at conscience
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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