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conscience
consciencerecognition of difference between right and wrong: His conscience bothered him when he cheated on the test.
Not to be confused with:conscious – aware; capable of thought or will: a conscious decision; cognizant: She was conscious of the stranger standing close to her.con·science C0578600 (kŏn′shəns)n.1. a. An awareness of morality in regard to one's behavior; a sense of right and wrong that urges one to act morally: Let your conscience be your guide.b. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement: a document that serves as the nation's conscience.c. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct: a person of unflagging conscience.2. The part of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature of one's actions and thoughts and then transmits such determinations to the ego for consideration.3. Obsolete Consciousness or awareness of something.Idioms: in (all good) conscience In all fairness; by any reasonable standard. on (one's) conscience Causing one to feel guilty or uneasy.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cōnscientia, from cōnsciēns, cōnscient-, present participle of cōnscīre, to be conscious of : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + scīre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots.]
con′science·less adj.conscience (ˈkɒnʃəns) n1. (Philosophy) a. the sense of right and wrong that governs a person's thoughts and actionsb. regulation of one's actions in conformity to this sensec. a supposed universal faculty of moral insight2. conscientiousness; diligence3. a feeling of guilt or anxiety: he has a conscience about his unkind action. 4. obsolete consciousness5. in conscience in all conscience a. with regard to truth and justiceb. certainly6. on one's conscience causing feelings of guilt or remorse[C13: from Old French, from Latin conscientia knowledge, consciousness, from conscīre to know; see conscious] ˈconscienceless adjcon•science (ˈkɒn ʃəns)
n. 1. the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience. 2. the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual. 3. an inhibiting sense of what is prudent. 4. conscientiousness. 5. Obs. consciousness; self-knowledge. Idioms: 1. in (all) conscience, in all reason and fairness. 2. on one's conscience, (of a wrongdoing) burdening one with guilt. [1175–1225; Middle English < Anglo-French < Latin conscientia knowledge, awareness, conscience. See con-, science] con′science•less, adj. con′science•less•ness, n. Conscience See Also: REGRET - A bad conscience is a kind of illness, in the sense that pregnancy is an illness —Friedrich Nietzsche
- A clear conscience is like a wall of brass —Latin proverb
- Conscience as big as the Alps —Walter Goodman, New York Times movie review, May 27, 1987
- Conscience … a terrifying little sprite, that bat-like winks by day and wakes by night —John Wolcott
- Conscience is God’s presence in man —Anon
- Conscience is like a sun-dial; if you let truth shine upon it, it will put you right —Hamilton Bower
The author expanded upon the simile as follows: “But you may cover it over so that no truth can fall upon it, or you may let false light gleam upon it and then it will lead you astray.” - (His) conscience rose like a shining light —Honore de Balzac
- Conscience wide as hell —William Shakespeare
- Gets little attacks of conscience, like hot flashes —Jonathan Valin
- Going through life with a conscience is like driving your car with the brakes on —Budd Schulberg
- A healthy conscience is like a wall of bronze —Erasmus
- He that has a scrupulous conscience, is like a horse that is not well wayed [well-taught]; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge —John Selden
The word ‘hath’ from the original simile has been modernized to ‘has.’ - The sting of conscience, like the gnawing of a dog at a bone, is mere foolishness —Friedrich Nietzsche
- Weather-beaten conscience … as elastic as his heart —Arthur Train
conscious consciousness">consciousness conscience conscientious">conscientious1. 'conscious'Conscious is an adjective. If you are conscious of something, you are aware of it. She became conscious of Rudolph looking at her.I was conscious that he had changed his tactics.If you are conscious, you are awake, rather than asleep or unconscious. The patient was fully conscious during the operation.2. 'consciousness'Consciousness is a noun. You can refer to your mind and thoughts as your consciousness. Doubts were starting to enter into my consciousness.If you lose consciousness, you become unconscious. If you regain consciousness or recover consciousness, you become conscious again after being unconscious. These are fairly formal expressions. He fell down and lost consciousness.He began to regain consciousness just as Kate was leaving.She died in hospital without recovering consciousness.In more informal English you can say that you pass out instead of 'lose consciousness', and come round instead of 'regain/recover consciousness'. He felt sick and dizzy, then passed out.When I came round, I was on the kitchen floor.3. 'conscience'Conscience is a noun. Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. My conscience told me to vote against the others.Their consciences were troubled by stories of famine and war.4. 'conscientious'Conscientious is an adjective. Someone who is conscientious is very careful to do their work properly. We are generally very conscientious about our work.She seemed a conscientious, serious young woman.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  conscience - motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actionsmoral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrongsuperego - (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscienceethical motive, ethics, morals, morality - motivation based on ideas of right and wrongsmall voice, voice of conscience, wee small voice - an inner voice that judges your behaviorsense of duty, sense of shame - a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility | | 2. | conscience - conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging conscience"morality - concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conductconscientiousness - the quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscienceunconscientiousness - the quality of being willing to ignore the dictates of conscience | | 3. | conscience - a feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty"shame - a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt |
consciencenoun1. principles, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong, still small voice I have battled with my conscience over whether I should send this letter or not.2. guilt, shame, regret, remorse, contrition, self-reproach, self-condemnation She was suffering terrible pangs of conscience about what she had done.in all conscience in fairness, rightly, certainly, fairly, truly, honestly, in truth, assuredly She could not, in all conscience, back out on her deal with him.Quotations
"Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking" [H.L. Mencken A Little Book in C Major]
"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all" [William Shakespeare Hamlet]
"Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it" [Samuel Butler]Proverbs
"A guilty conscience needs no accuser"consciencenounA sense of propriety or rightness:decency, grace.Translationsconscience (ˈkonʃəns) noun (that part of one's mind which holds one's) knowledge or sense of right and wrong. The injured man was on her conscience because she was responsible for the accident; She had a guilty conscience about the injured man; He had no conscience about dismissing the men. 良心 良心conscience
have a clean conscienceTo be guiltless or have no feelings of guilt or remorse over something. Don't you dare accuse me of causing this, I have a clean conscience! Some people think I should have treated him better, but I have a clean conscience in this whole affair.See also: clean, conscience, have(one's) conscience is cleanOne is guiltless or has no feelings of guilt or remorse over something. Don't you dare accuse me of causing this, my conscience is clean! Some people think I should have treated him better, but my conscience is clean in this whole affair.See also: clean, conscience(one's) conscience is clearOne is guiltless or has no feelings of guilt or remorse over something. Don't you dare accuse me of causing this, my conscience is clear! Some people think I should have treated him better, but my conscience is clear in this whole affair.See also: clear, conscienceeat (away) at (someone's) conscienceTo increasingly cause or inspire troubled feelings of guilt, especially for an extended period of time. Stealing that money from my parents has been eating away at my conscience for the past month. Don't let it eat at your conscience, anyone would have done the same thing in that situation.See also: conscience, eathave (something) on (one's) conscienceTo have persistent feelings of guilt about something, such as an act of wrongdoing. It's because of your cruelty that your brother died. I hope you have it on your conscience for the rest of your days!See also: conscience, have, onbe on (one's) conscienceTo be a persistent cause or source of guilt, such as an act of wrongdoing. It's because of your cruelty that your brother died. I hope it's on your conscience for the rest of your days!See also: conscience, onconscience moneyMoney paid to another in an attempt to alleviate the payer's guilty conscience. I felt so badly about breaking my mom's lamp that I eventually gave her conscience money, in the hopes that it would make me feel better.See also: conscience, moneyin (all) conscienceWithout guilt. Usually said to emphasize fairness in a transaction. Primarily heard in UK. In all conscience, I can't charge you more than the car is worth. No, I can't, in conscience, give you a better grade when you put such little effort into the assignment!See also: consciencea guilty conscience needs no accuserA feeling of guilt and remorse can be so strong that it will prompt an offender to confess, even if no one is requiring them to do so. Gary felt so guilty after taking the money out of Bill's wallet that he confessed and returned it a day later. A guilty conscience needs no accuser.See also: conscience, guilty, needs, noconscience does make cowards of us allThe conscience often prevents one from doing things that one wants to do (perhaps things that wrong or inappropriate). The phrase comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet. I really want to insult him back, but I just can't. Ugh, conscience does make cowards of us all.See also: all, conscience, coward, does, make, ofprick (one's) conscienceTo cause one niggling feelings of guilt or remorse. It pricked my conscience to see my brother being led away in handcuffs, but I know it was the right thing to call the cops on him. Their promotional material is carefully crafted to prick the conscience of anyone who picks it up.See also: conscience, prickin good conscienceWith respectable motives that would not cause one to feel guilty. Despite the promise of massive bonuses, I could not in good conscience sell our customers sub-prime mortgages. I have to be able to sign off on the company's accounts in good conscience.See also: conscience, goodon (one's) conscienceCausing one persistent, nagging guilt for something one did or failed to do. It's because of your cruelty that your brother died. I hope you have it on your conscience for the rest of your days! I really regret the way I treated her in high school. It's still on my conscience to this day.See also: conscience, onprisoner of conscienceSomeone imprisoned for their political or religious beliefs or other ideologies or actions associated therewith. Arrested for using social media to condemn the actions of the dictator, they are now prisoners of conscience.See also: conscience, of, prisonersearch (one's) conscienceTo carefully consider or think about one's own motivations for doing something. We're asking upper management to search their consciences and realize that this decision will negatively impact every employee in the company. I know you're hurt right now, but search your conscience—you don't want to go through with this.See also: conscience, searchsearch (one's) heartTo carefully consider or think about one's own emotions about or motivations for something. We're asking upper management to search their hearts and realize that this decision will negatively impact every employee in the company. I know you're hurt right now, but search your heart—you know that breaking up was the right thing to do.See also: heart, searchhave a clear conscienceTo be guiltless or have no feelings of guilt or remorse over something. Don't you dare accuse me of causing this, I have a clear conscience! Some people think I should have treated him better, but I have a clear conscience in this whole affair.See also: clear, conscience, haveConscience does make cowards of us all.Prov. People sometimes fear to do what they want or what they believe is necessary because they think it is wrong. (From Shakespeare's play, Hamlet.) Alan: I really want to go to the ball game with you guys this afternoon, but it just doesn't seem right to skip work to do it. Fred: Conscience does make cowards of us all, right, Alan?See also: all, conscience, coward, does, make, ofA guilty conscience needs no accuser.Prov. If you have done something wrong and feel guilty about it, you will be uncomfortable and want to confess even if no one accuses you of wrongdoing. Even though no one noticed him eating most of the cookies, Peter felt so bad about it that he told us what he had done. A guilty conscience needs no accuser.See also: conscience, guilty, needs, nohave a clear conscience (about someone or something) and have a clean conscience (about someone or something)to be free of guilt about someone or something. I'm sorry that John got the blame. I have a clean conscience about the whole affair. I have a clear conscience about John and his problems. I didn't do it. I swear to that with a clean conscience.See also: clear, conscience, havein (all) good conscienceFig. having good motives; displaying motives that will not result in a guilty conscience. In all good conscience, I could not recommend that you buy this car. In good conscience, she could not accept the reward. She had only been acting as a good citizen should.See also: conscience, goodhave a clear conscienceAlso, have a clean conscience. Feel free of guilt or responsibility. For example, I have a clear conscience-I did all I could to help. This idiom is also put as one's conscience is clear or clean , as in His conscience is clean about telling the whole story. The adjective clear has been used in the sense of "innocent" since about 1400; clean was so used from about 1300. See also: clear, conscience, havein conscienceAlso, in all good conscience. In all truth or fairness, as in I can't in conscience say that the meeting went well, or In all good conscience we can't support their stand on disarmament. [Late 1500s] See also: conscienceprisoner of conscience a person detained or imprisoned because of their religious or political beliefs. This phrase is particularly associated with the campaigns of Amnesty International, a human-rights organization.See also: conscience, of, prisonerin all/good ˈconscience while being honest or just: You cannot in all conscience think that is fair pay.See also: all, conscience, goodon your ˈconscience making you feel guilty for doing or failing to do something: I’ll write and apologize. I’ve had it on my conscience for weeks.See also: conscience, onprick your ˈconscience, your ˈconscience pricks you make you feel guilty about something; feel guilty about something: Her conscience pricked her as she lied to her sister.See also: conscience, pricksearch your ˈheart/ˈsoul/ˈconscience (formal) think carefully about your feelings or your reasons for doing something: If I searched my heart I’d probably find that I don’t always tell the truth. ▶ ˈheart-searching, ˈsoul-searching nouns: His divorce forced him to do a lot of soul-searching.See also: conscience, heart, search, soul in (all good) conscience In all fairness; by any reasonable standard.See also: conscience on (one's) conscience Causing one to feel guilty or uneasy.See also: conscience, onclear conscience, to have aTo feel free from blame, obligation, or a similar burden because one is guiltless (or so believes). The sixteenth-century writer John Lyly used the term several times in his Euphues (1580)—“a cleere conscience is a sure card”—and the same phrase turned up in James Howell’s proverb collection of 1659. Nearly a century later Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Keep Conscience clear, then never fear” (Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1749).See also: clear, havedictates of conscienceThe guiding principles of what one believes is right. The word “dictate” has been so used, for the authoritative words of law, scripture, and the like, since the late sixteenth century. In 1656 Archbishop John Bramhall wrote, “Contrarie to the dictate of his conscience.”See also: conscience, dictate, ofconscience
conscience, sense of moral awareness or of right and wrong. The concept has been variously explained by moralists and philosophers. In the history of ethicsethics,
in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a particular society
..... Click the link for more information. , the conscience has been looked upon as the will of a divine power expressing itself in man's judgments, an innate sense of right and wrong resulting from man's unity with the universe, an inherited intuitive sense evolved in the long history of the human race, and a set of values derived from the experience of the individual. Psychologists also differ in their analyses of the nature of conscience. It is variously believed to be an expression of values differing from other expressions of value only in the subject matter involved, a feeling of guilt for known or unknown actions done or not done, the manifestation of a special set of values introjected from the example and instruction of parents and teachers, and the value structure that essentially defines the personality of the individual. As a practical matter, the consciences of different people within a society or from different societies may vary widely.conscience a persons sense of right and wrong which constrains behaviour and causes feelings of guilt if its demands are not met. These moral strictures are learnt through SOCIALIZATION and therefore vary from person to person and culture to culture. The most important influence is that of the parents, who set standards for their child's behaviour both by example and by establishing rules, and who enforce the required behaviour by a system of rewards and punishments (see CONDITIONING). Parental and societal standards thus become internalized as the conscience. FREUD's theory is particularly specific about the formation of the conscience, which he labels the SUPEREGO. This develops through IDENTIFICATION with the same sex parent and is essentially the child's idealization of the parent's moral values. This emphasis on the parental and societal role may be considered limited by those who regard moral judgements as absolute. This view would suggest an innate moral sense and is particularly expressed in religion and mysticism. Compare COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE. Conscience an ethical category that refers to the ability to exercise moral self-control, to formulate moral obligations independently and to demand of oneself their fulfillment, and to evaluate one’s actions. A manifestation of the moral consciousness of the individual, conscience is revealed in rational awareness of the moral meaning of one’s actions and in emotions, such as “the gnawings of conscience.” Idealist ethics views conscience as the voice of the “inner self,” a manifestation of the “moral sense” inherent in everyone. Marxist-Leninist ethics demonstrates the social and historical character of conscience. conscience[′kän·chəns] (psychology) The moral, self-critical part of oneself wherein have developed, and reside, standards of behavior and performance and value judgments. ConscienceAidosancient Greek personification of conscience. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 14]Clamencehaunted by guilt because he failed to respond when aware that a girl had jumped or fallen into the Seine. [Fr. Lit.: Camus The Fall]Cricket, Jiminydapper mite guides the callow Pinocchio. [Am. Cinema: Pinocchio in Disney Films, 32–37]Elder Statesman, TheLord Claverton ponders the shame of his past, personified by ghosts of his victims. [Br. Drama: T. S. Eliot The Elder Statesman in Magill IV, 262]Godunov, BorisTsar suffers pangs of conscience for having murdered the Tsarevitch in order to seize the throne. [Russ. Drama and Opera: Boris Godunov]Karamazov, Ivanguilt for wishing his father’s death culminates in hallucinatory conversations with the Devil. [Russ. Lit.: Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov]Solness, Halyardplagued by awareness of his past ruthlessness and the guilt of defying God’s will. [Nor. Drama: Ibsen The Master Builder in Magill II, 643]Valdes and CorneliusGood Angel and Evil Angel; symbolize Faustus’s inner conflict. [Br. Lit.: Doctor Faustus]Wilson, Williamhis Doppelganger irrupts at occasions of duplicity. [Am. Lit.: “William Wilson” in Portable Poe, 57–82]consciencea. the sense of right and wrong that governs a person's thoughts and actions b. regulation of one's actions in conformity to this sense c. a supposed universal faculty of moral insight conscience
conscience [kon´shens] 1. an inner moral sense that distinguishes right acts from wrong. Difficulties arise in how the conscience decides between good and bad. Conscience is not always an adequate justification for action.2. the internalization of parental and social norms, related to the Freudian concept of superego; this conception of conscience has no role in ethical deliberation.3. in bioethics, the exercise and expression of a reflective sense of integrity, constitutive of reflection about the relationship between a specific course of action and a particular idea of the self and one's integrity. Appeals to conscience presume a prior decision about the rightness or wrongness of an act. Justification is adequate if it is based on universalizable principles; if justification is founded on religious beliefs, personal ideas, or a particular way of life, others cannot be held to them.conscience (kŏn′shəns)n.1. a. An awareness of morality in regard to one's behavior; a sense of right and wrong that urges one to act morally: Let your conscience be your guide.b. A source of moral or ethical judgment or pronouncement: a document that serves as the nation's conscience.c. Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct: a person of unflagging conscience.2. The part of the superego in psychoanalysis that judges the ethical nature of one's actions and thoughts and then transmits such determinations to the ego for consideration.
con′science·less adj.conscience
conscience an internal sense of right and wrong. To respect differences between persons the law sometimes permits a CONSCIENCE CLAUSE. Freedom of conscience is a HUMAN RIGHTCONSCIENCE. The moral sense, or that capacity of our mental constitution, by which we irresistibly feel the difference between right and wrong.
2. The constitution of the United States wisely provides that "no religious test shall ever be required." No man, then, or body of men, have a right to control a man's belief or opinion in religious matters, or to forbid the most perfect freedom of inquiry in relation to them, by force or threats, or by any other motives than arguments or persuasion. Vide Story, Const. Sec. 1841-1843. conscience
Synonyms for consciencenoun principlesSynonyms- principles
- scruples
- moral sense
- sense of right and wrong
- still small voice
noun guiltSynonyms- guilt
- shame
- regret
- remorse
- contrition
- self-reproach
- self-condemnation
phrase in all conscienceSynonyms- in fairness
- rightly
- certainly
- fairly
- truly
- honestly
- in truth
- assuredly
Synonyms for consciencenoun a sense of propriety or rightnessSynonymsSynonyms for consciencenoun motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actionsSynonyms- moral sense
- scruples
- sense of right and wrong
Related Words- superego
- ethical motive
- ethics
- morals
- morality
- small voice
- voice of conscience
- wee small voice
- sense of duty
- sense of shame
noun conformity to one's own sense of right conductRelated Words- morality
- conscientiousness
- unconscientiousness
noun a feeling of shame when you do something immoralRelated Words |