CONSCIENCE
\kˈɒnʃəns], \kˈɒnʃəns], \k_ˈɒ_n_ʃ_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of CONSCIENCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.
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The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.
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The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.
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Tenderness of feeling; pity.
By Oddity Software
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One's in most private thoughts; the moral sense or consciousness within oneself which determines right and wrong.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The knowledge of our own acts and feelings as right or wrong: sense of duty: the faculty or principle by which we distinguish right from wrong.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] Self-knowledge; knowledge of one's character, motives, and conduct; —the moral sense, the faculty which determines and enforces right, and prohibits and condemns wrong; —the judgment of the moral sense; conviction; feeling of duty moral judgment in general.
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