unconscious English · revision 15136

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /ʌnˈkɒn.ʃəs/, US /ʌnˈkɑːn.ʃəs/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[un-]] and [[conscious]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) The noun, the unconscious, is a loan translation of [[de|das Unbewusste]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Unaware, not marked by conscious thought, and also lacking consciousness altogether: 1712.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Not realized as existing in oneself is from 1800,^(OED 1989) and done without awareness from 1820.^(OED 1989) The sense temporarily insensible, knocked out, is first recorded in Oliver Wendell Holmes's Elsie Venner (1860).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) The noun, the unconscious mind, is from 1876 in Etymonline, before 1884 in Barnhart and the OED,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) and the adjective in Freud's psychological sense from 1912.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1712 – unaware; lacking consciousness.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1820 – done without awareness.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1860 – insensible, knocked out.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1876 – the unconscious (noun).^(Etymonline)

+ * 1912 – unconscious (psychology).^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Lacking normal awareness and perception; [[insensible]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Temporarily without consciousness, as after a blow.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

+ # Not aware of something: ''unconscious of his bad manners''.^(Collins 2023)

+ # Happening without conscious thought or intention: ''an unconscious blunder''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Coming from the unconscious mind.^(Collins 2023)^(OED 1989)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(psychoanalysis)'' The part of the mind holding memories, impulses and repressed desires that are not open to conscious perception but affect thought and behaviour.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[unconsciously]]

+ * [[unconsciousness]]

+ * [[collective unconscious]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[conscious]]

+ * [[consciousness]]

+ * [[subconscious]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}