conscience
Meaning
- 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.
- 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.
- (obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
Synonyms
moral sense
inner voice
sense of right and wrong
mental state
religious rites
excellent law
god’s law
shame of sins
moral force
consciousness of guilt
inner self
sense of shame
Frequency
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”).
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