What is the meaning of unconscious?

noun

  • That part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware.

adjective

  • Not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead.
    • usage: "lay unconscious on the floor"
  • Without conscious volition.
  • Followed by `of'. ( not knowing or perceiving) "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home- Charles Dickens
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