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Unconscious is an English word with synonyms like insensible or incognizant. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Unconscious in a sentence

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Unconscious meaning

  1. Not awake; having no awareness (usually as the result of a head injury).
  2. Without directed thought or awareness.
  3. engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.

Synonyms of Unconscious

Using Unconscious

  • The main meaning on this page is: Not awake; having no awareness (usually as the result of a head injury). | Without directed thought or awareness. | engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
  • Useful related words include: insensible, incognizant, unaware, unvoluntary.
  • In the example corpus, unconscious often appears in combinations such as: unconscious and, the unconscious, an unconscious.

Context around Unconscious

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 14 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Unconscious

  • In this selection, "unconscious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, collective, personal, group, mind, desire and processes stand out and add context to how "unconscious" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a group unconscious in which and about his unconscious thinking. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "unconscious" sits close to words such as infinite, fraction and infamous, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with unconscious

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

She's lying down unconscious, possibly even dead, but definitely unconscious. (11 words)

A 14-year-old Ukrainian girl has died after being found unconscious on a beach in south Devon. (18 words)

A case of mistaken identity led to a peacemaker being knocked unconscious after one punch broke his jaw. (18 words)

Furthermore, the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious was extended with a recognition of a group unconscious, in which the unconscious processes of group members could be acted out in the form of irrational processes in group sessions. (37 words)

In this view, the Surrealists may have been producing great works, but they were products of the conscious, not the unconscious mind, and they deceived themselves with regard to what they were doing with the unconscious. (36 words)

Jung believed that material repressed by the conscious mind, postulated by Freud to comprise the unconscious, was similar to his own concept of the shadow, which in itself is only a small part of the unconscious. (36 words)

Was this a slip, where the unconscious leaks into speech, and if so, what does it reveal about his unconscious thinking? (21 words)

Example sentences (20)

He agreed with Freud that the unconscious is a determinant of personality, but he proposed that the unconscious be divided into two layers: the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious.

Furthermore, the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious was extended with a recognition of a group unconscious, in which the unconscious processes of group members could be acted out in the form of irrational processes in group sessions.

He believed that significant psychic events take place "below the surface" in the unconscious mind, For example, dreaming : Freud called dream symbols the "royal road to the unconscious" like hidden messages from the unconscious.

She's lying down unconscious, possibly even dead, but definitely unconscious.

Was this a slip, where the unconscious leaks into speech, and if so, what does it reveal about his unconscious thinking?

Freud, S. (1949)., p. 44 He theorized that the content of dreams reflects the dreamer's unconscious mind and specifically that dream content is shaped by unconscious wish fulfillment.

In this view, the Surrealists may have been producing great works, but they were products of the conscious, not the unconscious mind, and they deceived themselves with regard to what they were doing with the unconscious.

Jung believed that material repressed by the conscious mind, postulated by Freud to comprise the unconscious, was similar to his own concept of the shadow, which in itself is only a small part of the unconscious.

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Jung de-emphasized the importance of sexual development and focused on the collective unconscious: the part of unconscious that contains memories and ideas that Jung believed were inherited from ancestors.

Lacan's desire refers always to unconscious desire because it is unconscious desire that forms the central concern of psychoanalysis.

New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich In addition to the structure of the unconscious, Jung differed from Freud in that he did not believe that sexuality was at the base of all unconscious thoughts.

On one occasion when he was approximately 16 years old, Dahmer conceived a fantasy of rendering a particular male jogger he found attractive unconscious and then making sexual use of his unconscious body.

The objection is that the time scales involved in motor control are very short, and motor control involves a great deal of unconscious action, with much physical movement entirely unconscious.

There is no such thing as the unconscious; there are only experiences of which we are aware, and others of which we are not aware, that is, of which we are unconscious.

A 14-year-old Ukrainian girl has died after being found unconscious on a beach in south Devon.

A case of mistaken identity led to a peacemaker being knocked unconscious after one punch broke his jaw.

After a heated chase, Erin manages to lose her tail but ends up falling unconscious beside a roadside bush.

After the attack, Aponte fled on a motorcycle, leaving Kelly unconscious and lying on the ground, police sources said at the time.

A lot of the ensuing wisdom is stored deep in the unconscious recesses of our minds, but some of it is turned into language.

A male nurse practitioner who died of a drug overdose at a private hospital in Iowa sexually assaulted at least nine female patients while they were sedated or unconscious, hospital and police officials said.

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Common combinations with unconscious

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "unconscious" in a sentence?
An example: "He agreed with Freud that the unconscious is a determinant of personality, but he proposed that the unconscious be divided into two layers: the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "unconscious" from authentic English texts.
What does "unconscious" mean?
Unconscious means: Not awake; having no awareness (usually as the result of a head injury).
What are synonyms of "unconscious"?
Common synonyms of "unconscious" include: insensible, incognizant, unaware, unvoluntary, nonvoluntary, involuntary, out, ko'd. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "unconscious" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "unconscious", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.