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conscience
noun
1 conscience
Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions.
synonyms: moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong.
Roget 926:
duty,
what ought to be done,
moral obligation,
accountableness†,
liability,
onus,
responsibility;
bounden duty,
imperative duty;
call,
call of duty;
accountability.
allegiance,
fealty,
tie engagement
etc.
(promise)
768;
part;
function,
calling
etc.
(business)
625.
morality,
morals,
decalogue;
case of conscience;
conscientiousness
etc.
(probity)
939;
conscience,
inward monitor,
still small voice within,
sense of duty,
tender conscience,
superego;
the hell within
[Paradise Lost].
dueness
etc.
924;
propriety,
fitness,
seemliness,
amenability,
decorum,
to prepon;
the thing,
the proper thing;
the right thing to do,
the proper thing to do.
[Science of morals]
ethics,
ethology. ;
deontology†,
aretology†;
moral philosophy,
ethical philosophy;
casuistry,
polity.
observance,
fulfillment,
discharge,
performance,
acquittal,
satisfaction,
redemption;
good behavior.
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Roget 490:
knowledge;
cognizance,
cognition,
cognoscence†;
acquaintance,
experience,
ken [Scot.],
privity†,
insight,
familiarity;
comprehension,
apprehension;
recognition;
appreciation
etc.
(judgment)
480;
intuition;
conscience,
consciousness;
perception,
precognition;
acroamatics†.
light,
enlightenment;
glimpse,
inkling;
glimmer,
glimmering;
dawn;
scent,
suspicion;
impression
etc.
(idea)
453;
discovery
etc.
480.1.
system of knowledge,
body of knowledge;
science,
philosophy,
pansophy†;
acroama†;
theory,
aetiology†,
etiology;
circle of the sciences;
pandect†,
doctrine,
body of doctrine;
cyclopedia,
encyclopedia;
school
etc.
(system of opinions)
484.
tree of knowledge;
republic of letters
etc.
(language)
560.
erudition,
learning,
lore,
scholarship,
reading,
letters;
literature;
book madness;
book learning,
bookishness;
bibliomania†,
bibliolatry†;
information,
general information;
store of knowledge
&c.;
education
etc.
(teaching)
537;
culture,
menticulture†,
attainments;
acquirements,
acquisitions;
accomplishments;
proficiency;
practical knowledge
etc.
(skill)
698;
liberal education;
dilettantism;
rudiments
etc.
(beginning)
66.
deep knowledge,
profound knowledge,
solid knowledge,
accurate knowledge,
acroatic knowledge†,
acroamatic knowledge†,
vast knowledge,
extensive knowledge,
encyclopedic knowledge,
encyclopedic learning;
omniscience,
pantology†.
march of intellect;
progress of science,
advance of science,
advance of learning;
schoolmaster abroad.
[person who knows much]
scholar
etc.
492.
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Polish: sumienie
2 conscience
Conformity to one's own sense of right conduct.
Dutch: geweten
3 conscience
A feeling of shame when you do something immoral.
Moby thesaurus: anima, censor, coconscious, collective unconscious, compunction, conscientiousness, conscious self, death instinct, demur, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, ethical self, ethics, fairness, foreconscious, grace, honor, id, inner arbiter, inward monitor, judgement, libidinal energy, libido, mind, moral censor, morality, morals, motive force, persona, personality, pleasure principle, preconscious, primitive self, principles, psyche, psychic apparatus, racial unconscious, scruple, scruples, self, social conscience, standards, subconscious, subconscious mind, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, tender conscience, twinge of conscience, unconscious, unconscious mind, vital impulse, voice of conscience ... show more.
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