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NONCONSCIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nonconscious mean?
• NONCONSCIOUS (adjective)
The adjective NONCONSCIOUS has 2 senses:
1. concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness
2. relating to the lack of consciousness of inanimate things
Familiarity information: NONCONSCIOUS used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Concerning mental functioning that is not represented in consciousness
Context example:
nonconscious psychic processes
Similar:
unconscious (not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to the lack of consciousness of inanimate things
Similar:
inanimate; non-living; nonliving (not endowed with life)
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