CONSCIENCE meaning: Internal sense of right, wrong

We found 45 dictionaries that define the word conscience:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

conscience: Merriam-Webster.com
conscience: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
conscience: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
conscience: Collins English Dictionary
conscience: Vocabulary.com
Conscience, conscience: Wordnik
conscience: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
conscience: Wiktionary
conscience: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
conscience: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
conscience: Infoplease Dictionary
Conscience, conscience: Dictionary.com
conscience: Online Etymology Dictionary
conscience: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Conscience (The Beloved album), Conscience (Womack & Womack album), Conscience (disambiguation), Conscience: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Conscience: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
conscience: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
conscience: Rhymezone
conscience, conscience (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
conscience: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CONSCIENCE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
Conscience: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
conscience: Free Dictionary
conscience: Mnemonic Dictionary
conscience: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
conscience: Dictionary/thesaurus
conscience: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)

conscience: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
conscience: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

conscience: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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online medical dictionary (No longer online)
conscience: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
conscience: Idioms
Dictionary of Sorts (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Conscience: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)

FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

conscience: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.

Opposite:

immorality, corruption, dishonesty, deceit, unscrupulousness

Types:

social, moral, intuition, instinct, intellect, more...

Phrases:

Social conscience, guilty conscience, in conscience, conscience clause, conscience stricken, more...

Adjectives:

own, good, social, clear, guilty, individual, bad, public, moral, human, national

Colors:

white, gray, silver, gold, blue, more...

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