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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, ... show more

Roget 490: knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken [Scot.], privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation ... show more

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 ... show more.

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