conscience

Meaning

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. (obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.

Concepts

conscience

moral sense

consciousness

mind

heart

virtue

remorse

scruples

integrity

awareness

lucidity

realization

inner voice

guilt

shame

sense of right and wrong

goodness

probity

rectitude

uprightness

sense

excellent law

god’s law

religious rites

sense of shame

shame of sins

guilty

superego

consciousness of guilt

soul

spirit

guilty conscience

torment

justice

truth

inner self

thought

conviction

compunction

inside

decency

heart of hearts

moral force

contemplation

opinion

mental state

determination

purpose

will

wise

gallbladder

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɒn.ʃəns/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

A good conscience is a soft pillow .