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unˈconsciousness
[f. as prec.]
1. The state or fact of being mentally unconscious or unaware of something.
1779–81Johnson L.P., Addison Wks. III. 51 The work did not suffer much by his unconsciousness of its commencement. 1794Paley Evid. i. ix. §1 We perceive also in Clement a total unconsciousness of doubt whether these were the real words of Christ. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. II. 336 In a society where things like these are said and done..there is a prevalent unconsciousness of the existing wrong. 1870J. H. Newman Gram. Assent ii. vi. 181 Our unconsciousness of those innumerable acts of assent, which we are incessantly making.
b. Without const.
1828Lytton Pelham III. xx, It was Dawson who shut the door, through utter unconsciousness. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 264 Josephus..falsifies and colours... Philo on the other hand wrote with far greater unconsciousness.
2. The fact of being devoid of consciousness.
1759Johnson Rasselas xlvii, All the notices of sense and investigations of science concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.
3. The state of being unconscious; loss of consciousness; insensibility.
1849Froude Nemesis of Faith 223 When he came he found her in a state of almost unconsciousness. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) II. iii. 135 The peace of dull unconsciousness His wild torn heart at last did bless. 1890Retrospect Med. CII. 160 A longer or shorter period of continued unconsciousness, without convulsion. |