conscience
English
/kɒnʃəns/
noun
Definitions
- The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour.
- (chiefly fiction) 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.
- (obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French conscience derived from Latin conscientia (knowledge within oneself).
Origin
Latin
conscientia
Gloss
knowledge within oneself
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- conscience-proof English
- conscienced English
- conscienceless English
- consciencelessly English
- consciencelessness English
- consciencism English
- consciencist English
- unconscienced English
- conscientia Latin
- cōnsciēns Latin
- coscienza Italian
- conscience French
- conciencia Spanish, Castilian
- consciencia Spanish, Castilian
- consciência Portuguese
- conscience Old French
- conscienche Norman