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noun
- 1. an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior: "he had a guilty conscience about his desires"
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The meaning of CONSCIENCE is the sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good. How to use conscience in a sentence.
CONSCIENCE definition: 1. the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad…. Learn more.
Conscience definition: the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action. See examples of CONSCIENCE used in a sentence.
Definitions of conscience. noun. motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions. synonyms: moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong. see more. noun. conformity to one's own sense of right conduct. “a person of unflagging conscience ” see more. noun.
CONSCIENCE meaning: 1. the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad…. Learn more.
Conscience, a personal sense of the moral content of one’s own conduct, intentions, or character with regard to a feeling of obligation to do right or be good. Conscience, usually informed by acculturation and instruction, is thus generally understood to give intuitively authoritative judgments.
Conscience is doing what you believe is right even though it might be unpopular, difficult, or dangerous. He refused for reasons of conscience to sign a new law legalising abortion.
I say that conscience is a part of the mind or understanding, to show that conscience is not a bare knowledge or judgement of the understanding (as men commonly write), but a natural power, faculty, or created quality, from which knowledge and judgement proceed as effects. W. Perkins, Cases of Consc. in Wks. (1603) 619.
Definition of conscience noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
noun. /ˈkɑnʃəns/ [countable, uncountable] the part of your mind that tells you whether your actions are right or wrong to have a clear/guilty conscience (= to feel that you have done right/wrong) This is a matter of individual conscience (= everyone must make their own judgment about it).
