conscience

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English conscience, from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”) (a calque of Ancient Greek σῠνείδησῐς (sŭneídēsĭs)), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”), from com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒn.ʃəns/, /ˈkɒn.tʃəns/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑn.ʃəns/, /ˈkɑn.tʃəns/ === Noun === conscience (countable and uncountable, plural consciences) The ethical or moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions. 1949, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist, Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it. (chiefly fiction, narratology) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices. (obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Collocations ==== ==== Collocations ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === synteresis === Further reading === “conscience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “conscience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French conscience, borrowed from Latin cōnscientia (“knowledge within oneself”), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s/ Homophone: consciences Hyphenation: con‧science === Noun === conscience f (plural consciences) conscience consciousness ==== Antonyms ==== inconscience ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== conscient science === Further reading === “conscience”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle English == === Alternative forms === consience, conciens === Etymology === Borrowed from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”). === Noun === conscience (plural consciences) conscience ==== Descendants ==== English: conscience Yola: coshes, coshe, cosh → Irish: coinsias ==== References ==== “conscience, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. == Old French == === Alternative forms === cunscience (Anglo-Norman) === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”). === Noun === conscience oblique singular, f (oblique plural consciences, nominative singular conscience, nominative plural consciences) conscience ==== Descendants ==== French: conscience → Middle English: conscience, consience, conciensEnglish: conscienceYola: coshes, coshe, cosh→ Irish: coinsias