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unconscious

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that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware

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unconscious mind

Other meanings

2. adjective

not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead

3. adjective

without conscious volition

4. adjective

(followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving

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