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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary:

sub·con·scious·ness

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(sŭb-kŏn'shəs-nĭs)
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The state in which mental processes take place without the conscious perception of the individual.

Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: Science:

subconsciousness

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The part of the psyche just below consciousness and capable of bursting into consciousness. For example, a repressed sexual desire is part of our subconsciousness, although we may at some time become conscious of it.

  • The subconscious is not the same as the unconscious. Blinking, for example, is usually unconscious and occasionally conscious, but never subconscious.

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