consentiencen.
1. The quality or condition of being consentient; agreement of opinion.
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the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > [noun]
cordc1300
assentc1386
concordc1386
accordancea1400
unanimity1436
concordancec1450
condescentc1460
greement1483
agreeing?1520
consent1529
consension1570
onenessa1575
consort1590
concurrency1596
agreation1598
convenance1613
concert1618
concurrence1669
accordancy1790
coincidence1795
unanimousness1828
one-mindedness1836
consentience1879
1879 H. S. Wilson in 19th Cent. No. 32. 679 There is a full consentience of contemporary historical witnesses.
2. A term applied to denote the sensuous equivalent, in unconscious, involuntary, or reflex action, of consciousness in conscious action; the consensus or synthesis of impressions which takes place in the sentient organism apart from consciousness, and by which responsive acts are induced.
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the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > unconscious mind > [noun]
unconscious1818
consentience1877
subconscious1878
inner space1958
1877 G. H. Lewes Physical Basis of Mind 357 Thus the gradations of sensitive reaction are Sentience, Consentience, and Consciousness..we may say that a man sometimes acts unconsciously, or thinks unconsciously, although his action and thought are ruled by Consentience.
1877 G. H. Lewes Physical Basis of Mind 361 Has a bee consciousness?..The bee feels and reacts on feelings; but its feelings cannot closely resemble our own..We should therefore say the bee has Consentience, but not Consciousness.
1889 St. G. Mivart Truth 183 As..these sensations may..be felt without consciousness, we require a term to express the faculty we have of receiving them all, in one unity of our being (one sensorium) apart from consciousness. The best term to denote this faculty, seems to be ‘consentience’..It is by this faculty of ‘consentience’ that the unconscious sleep-walker receives and accurately responds to the varied impressions which surrounding objects make upon his organs.
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