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noun
- 1. a person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behaviour: "he had a guilty conscience about his desires"
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The meaning of CONSCIENCE is the sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good. How to use conscience in a sentence.
CONSCIENCE definition: 1. the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad…. Learn more.
CONSCIENCE meaning: 1. the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad…. Learn more.
A conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system. Conscience stands in contrast to elicited emotion or thought due to associations based on immediate sensory perceptions and reflexive responses, as in sympathetic central nervous system responses
Conscience definition: the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action. See examples of CONSCIENCE used in a sentence.
Definition of conscience noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you if what you are doing is wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, or if you have something on your conscience, you feel guilty because you know you have done something wrong.
A conscience is a built-in sense of what's right and what's wrong. That sick feeling in your stomach after you lied to your brother about borrowing his skateboard? That might be your conscience bothering you.
I say that conscience is a part of the mind or understanding, to show that conscience is not a bare knowledge or judgement of the understanding (as men commonly write), but a natural power, faculty, or created quality, from which knowledge and judgement proceed as effects. W. Perkins, Cases of Consc. in Wks. (1603) 619.
conscience. noun. /ˈkɑnʃəns/. [countable, uncountable] the part of your mind that tells you whether your actions are right or wrong to have a clear/guilty conscience (= to feel that you have done right/wrong) This is a matter of individual conscience (= everyone must make their own judgment about it).
