释义 |
subˈconsciousness [f. as prec. + -ness.] 1. Partial or imperfect consciousness; a state of consciousness in which perception is indistinct; that part of the mental field which is on the border of consciousness.
1874G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind (Ser. 1) I. 141 Neural processes which formerly were accompanied by Consciousness sink into Sub-Consciousness. 1879Ibid. (Ser. iii.) I. v. 88 There all the processes are blended, integrated, and in certain relative intensities become states of Consciousness; in lesser intensities, states of Subconsciousness. 1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 47 The hypothesis of unconscious mental modifications, as it has been unfortunately termed,—the hypothesis of subconsciousness, as we may style it to avoid this contradiction in terms. 1904Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Sept. 692 He probably projects into the mental life of others what is present in his own subconsciousness. 2. A condition of imperfectly realizing or being aware of something.
1881Nation (N.Y.) XXXII. 290 Brady's consciousness or subconsciousness of the shortness and uncertainty of his own tenure. 1896F. M. Crawford Corleone xxxiii, He drove away the sub-consciousness that the thing was not yet done. |