unconsciousadjective
uk/ʌnˈkɒn.ʃəs/us/ʌnˈkɑːn.ʃəs/B2 in the state of not being awake, especially as the result of a head injury:
She was hit on the head by a stone and knocked unconscious.
C2 An unconscious thought or feeling is one that you do not know you have:
my unconscious desire to impress him
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- Some thug knocked him unconscious.
- She was found unconscious and bleeding.
- Helen was unconscious and hooked up to a life support machine.
- He seems to be driven by an unconscious desire to do better than everyone else.
- All humans possess the unconscious need to be loved.
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Losing consciousness
- black out
- blackout
- collapse
- coma
- concuss
- concussed
- concussion
- conk out
- go out like a light idiom
- insensible
- knock
- knock sb out
- oblivion
- out
- pass
- see
- see stars idiom
- stupor
- swoon
- syncope
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Unaware
unconsciously
adverb uk/ʌnˈkɒn.ʃəs.li/us/ʌnˈkɑːn.ʃəs.li/
unconsciousness
noun [ U ] uk/ʌnˈkɒn.ʃəs.nəs/us/ʌnˈkɑːn.ʃəs.nəs/
unconsciousnoun
uk/ʌnˈkɒn.ʃəs/us/ʌnˈkɑːn.ʃəs/the unconscious
the part of your mind that contains feelings and thoughts that you do not know about, and that influences the way you behave
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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
- commit
- committal
- Freudian
- gestalt
- id
- inkblot test
- Jungian
- Oedipal
- psych
- psycho
- psychoanalyse
- psychological
- repression
- shock therapy
- shrink
- subliminal
- superego
- trance
- transference
- word association
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Mind and personality