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conscience
Overview of noun conscience
The noun conscience has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (12) conscience, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong -- (motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions)
2. (6) conscience -- (conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging conscience")
3. (1) conscience -- (a feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun conscience
3 senses of conscience
Sense 1
conscience, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong
=> ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality
=> motivation, motive, need
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
conscience
=> morality
=> quality
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
conscience
=> shame
=> feeling
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun conscience
2 of 3 senses of conscience
Sense 1
conscience, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong
=> superego
=> wee small voice, small voice, voice of conscience
=> sense of shame, sense of duty
Sense 2
conscience
=> conscientiousness
=> unconscientiousness
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun conscience
3 senses of conscience
Sense 1
conscience, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong
=> ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality
Sense 2
conscience
=> morality
Sense 3
conscience
=> shame
Antonyms of noun conscience
Member Holonyms of noun conscience
Substance Holonyms of noun conscience
Part Holonyms of noun conscience
Member Meronyms of noun conscience
Substance Meronyms of noun conscience
Part Meronyms of noun conscience
Meronyms of noun conscience
Holonyms of noun conscience
Attributes of noun conscience
Derived Forms of noun conscience
2 of 3 senses of conscience
Sense 2
conscience
RELATED TO>(adj) conscientious#2
=> conscientious
Sense 3
conscience
RELATED TO>(adj) conscientious#2
=> conscientious
Domain of noun conscience
Domain Terms of noun conscience
Familiarity of noun conscience
conscience used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun conscience
3 senses of conscience
Sense 1
conscience, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong
> ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality
=> hedonism
=> conscience, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong
=> Inner Light, Light, Light Within, Christ Within
Sense 2
conscience
> morality
=> righteousness
=> rightness
=> conscience
=> good, goodness
=> virtue, chastity, sexual morality
Sense 3
conscience
> shame
=> conscience
=> self-disgust, self-hatred
=> embarrassment
Meronyms of noun conscience
3 senses of conscience
Holonyms of noun conscience
Grep of noun conscience
conscience
conscience money
guilty conscience
voice of conscience
Grep of adj conscience
conscience-smitten
conscienceless
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