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conscience
[ kon-shuhns ]
noun
- 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.
- the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.
- an inhibiting sense of what is prudent:
I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.
- Obsolete. consciousness; self-knowledge.
- Obsolete. strict and reverential observance.
conscience
/ ˈɒʃəԲ /
noun
- the sense of right and wrong that governs a person's thoughts and actions
- regulation of one's actions in conformity to this sense
- a supposed universal faculty of moral insight
- conscientiousness; diligence
- a feeling of guilt or anxiety
he has a conscience about his unkind action
- obsolete.consciousness
- in conscience or in all conscience
- with regard to truth and justice
- certainly
- on one's consciencecausing feelings of guilt or remorse
Derived Forms
- ˈDzԲԳ, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- DzsԳ· adjective
- DzsԳ··ly adverb
- DzsԳ··ness noun
- ܲ·DzsԳ noun
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of conscience1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of conscience1
Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
- in all conscience, Also in conscience.
- in all reason and fairness.
More idioms and phrases containing conscience
see have a clear conscience ; in conscience .Example Sentences
That’s what happens when you have a president with no filter, no conscience and a flamethrower where his mouth should be.
“I cannot shake off the great debt on my conscience,” Siegfried later wrote.
A quartet of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers shapes footage of the bulldozing of West Bank’s Masafer Yatta into a cry of conscience against occupation.
"So your conscience is clear on that one?" persisted touchline reporter Graham Simmons.
And for innie Mark, it also ended with a crisis of conscience that led him to make a critical choice in the face of an uncertain future.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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