conscience - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'conscience' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Conscience

[ n.]

- Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.
- The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.
- The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.
- Tenderness of feeling; pity.

Meaning of 'conscience' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . conscience

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- conformity to one's own sense of right conduct

Example in sentence:

a person of unflagging conscience

Meaning (2):
- a feeling of shame when you do something immoral

Example in sentence:

he has no conscience about his cruelty

Nearby Words:

con con- conacre conarium conation conative conatus concamerate concameration concatenate

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Collective conscience
Collective conscience means common beliefs and values that guide human behaviour. Durkheim posited that such a conscience is

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