ALL meanings of conscience
con·science
C c - abbreviation CONSCIENCE consciousness 3
- noun conscience a knowledge or sense of right and wrong, with an urge to do right; moral judgment that opposes the violation of a previously recognized ethical principle and that leads to feelings of guilt if one violates such a principle 3
- noun conscience inner thoughts or feelings 3
- uncountable noun conscience Conscience is doing what you believe is right even though it might be unpopular, difficult, or dangerous. 3
- uncountable noun conscience Conscience is a feeling of guilt because you know you have done something that is wrong. 3
- noun conscience the sense of right and wrong that governs a person's thoughts and actions 3
- noun conscience regulation of one's actions in conformity to this sense 3
- noun conscience a supposed universal faculty of moral insight 3
- noun conscience conscientiousness; diligence 3
- noun conscience a feeling of guilt or anxiety 3
- noun conscience moral sense 1
- noun conscience feeling of guilt 1
- noun conscience the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience. 1
- noun conscience the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual. 1
- noun conscience an inhibiting sense of what is prudent: I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me. 1
- abbreviation CONSCIENCE conscientiousness. 1
- noun conscience Obsolete. consciousness; self-knowledge. 1
- noun conscience Obsolete. strict and reverential observance. 1
- idioms conscience have something on one's conscience, to feel guilty about something, as an act that one considers wrong: She behaves as if she had something on her conscience. 1
- idioms conscience in all conscience, in all reason and fairness. certainly; assuredly. Also, in conscience. 1
- noun conscience An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. 1
- noun conscience The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour. 0
- noun conscience (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. 0
- noun conscience (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness. 0