Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unconscious; subconscious; wanting self-consciousness.

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Examples

  • We've got "inconscient" but it doesn't convey the full extent of the English word.

    languagehat.com: MISSING WORDS. 2005

  • La suite, c'est le retour inconscient dans la chaîne, ou c'est l'éveil définitif.

    After a Day Back at Work — Climb to the Stars 2008

  • We know that genes and chromosomes are the cause of hereditary transmissions, not only of physical but of psychological variations; but we do not discover how psychological characteristics can be contained and transmitted in this inconscient material vehicle.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • We know that genes and chromosomes are the cause of hereditary transmissions, not only of physical but of psychological variations; but we do not discover how psychological characteristics can be contained and transmitted in this inconscient material vehicle.

    The major Truth is that mind determines body Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • By his emergence from the dark cave of the inconscient the human being is newborn into a divine childhood, and this individual awakening bring nearer and nearer the possibility of a new dawn on the earth-consciousness.

    Leonardo da Vinci, Nietzsche, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • J'etais fatigué mais le fait de ne pas avoir fait grand chose a part la suivre dans les rayons des magasins m'a permis de pouvoir me mettre en mode "veille" entre conscient et inconscient.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Evolution is the method by which it liberates itself; consciousness appears in what seems to be inconscient, and once having appeared is self-impelled to grow higher and higher and at the same time to enlarge and develop towards a greater and greater perfection.

    Sri Aurobindo’s Teaching and Method of Sadhana Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Evolution is the method by which it liberates itself; consciousness appears in what seems to be inconscient, and once having appeared is self-impelled to grow higher and higher and at the same time to enlarge and develop towards a greater and greater perfection.

    Evolution by a conscious will = Yoga Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Nature is Her effulgent shakti, not inconscient prakriti or illusory maya.

    Tantra and Transcendentalism – Emerson and Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Only the woodpile, friendly mossy logs unsplit, stood inconscient and irresponsible for any share in his black circumstances; and his tears fell among the lichens of the stump he was bowed on till, observing them, he began to wonder whether he could cry enough to make a pond there, and was presently disappointed to find the source exhausted.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

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