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单词 consciencelessness
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
con•science /ˈkɑnʃəns/USA pronunciation   n. 
  1. the sense of what is right or wrong in one's acts, thoughts, or motives: [uncountable]a matter of conscience, not of opportunity.[countable]My conscience keeps getting in the way of easy decisions.
Idioms
  1. Idioms in (all or good) conscience, [uncountable] in all reason and fairness:I can't do that in good conscience because I would be betraying my friends.
  2. Idioms on one's conscience, (of a wrongdoing);
    burdening one with guilt:The crime had been on his conscience for years.

See -sci-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
con•science  (konshəns),USA pronunciation 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:I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.
  4. conscientiousness.
  5. [Obs.]consciousness;
    self-knowledge.
  6. [Obs.]strict and reverential observance.
  7. Idioms have something on one's conscience, to feel guilty about something, as an act that one considers wrong:She behaves as if she had something on her conscience.
  8. Idioms in all conscience:
    • in all reason and fairness.
    • certainly;
      assuredly.
Also, in conscience. 
  • Latin conscientia knowledge, awareness, conscience. See con-, science
  • Anglo-French
  • Middle English 1175–1225
conscience•less, adj. 
conscience•less•ly, adv. 
conscience•less•ness, n. 

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