What is the meaning of 'conscience'?

Answer 1

a feeling in side someone that tells them right from wrong it helps you know when your doing wrong.

AnswerThis also means that you or someone else is "under" aware. and not underwear! LOL AnswerThe Greek word for "conscience" literally means "co-knowledge, or knowledge with oneself." Unlike all other earthly creatures, we possess a God-given capacity to know ourselves. We can, in a sense, stand back and look at ourselves and make moral judgments. Acting as an internal witness bearer, or judge, our conscience can examine our actions, our attitudes, and our choices. It may guide us toward a good decision or warn us against a bad one. It may comfort us for choosing well or punish us with sharp pangs for choosing poorly.

Answer 2

Roman Catholic AnswerThe Catechism defines conscience as the voice of God in man's innermost self telling him right from wrong:

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 19941776 "Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself but which he must obey. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, sounds in his heart at the right moment . . . for man has in his heart a law inscribed by God . . . His conscience is man's most secret core and his sanctuary. There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths." (Gaudium et spes 16)