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UNCONSCIOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state lacking normal awareness of the self or environment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("unconsciousness" is a kind of...):
cognitive state; state of mind (the state of a person's cognitive processes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unconsciousness"):
automatic pilot; autopilot (a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness)
unawareness; unknowingness (unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention)
blackout (a momentary loss of consciousness)
grogginess; semiconsciousness; stupefaction; stupor (marginal consciousness)
coma; comatoseness (a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury)
electrosleep (unconsciousness brought about by the passage of a low voltage electric current through the brain)
semicoma (a mild comatose state; a coma from which the person can be roused by appropriate stimuli)
insensibility (a lack of sensibility)
trance (a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep)
semitrance (a trancelike state in which the person can follow instructions but voluntary action is weak or absent)
narcosis (unconsciousness induced by narcotics or anesthesia)
Antonym:
consciousness (an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation)
Derivation:
unconscious ((followed by 'of') not knowing or perceiving)
unconscious (not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead)
Context examples:
The symptoms of AES include convulsion, unconsciousness, excessive sweating, and frothing at the mouth.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
She was assisted, however, by that perfect indifference and apparent unconsciousness, among the only three of her own friends in the secret of the past, which seemed almost to deny any recollection of it.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Though he slept soundly, he awoke instantly, like a cat, and he awoke eagerly, glad that the five hours of unconsciousness were gone.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I had not yet had a glimmering of unconsciousness, and it seemed that an interminable period of time was lapsing before I heard her feet flying back.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He would lose only five hours anyway, and then the jangling bell would jerk him out of unconsciousness and he would have before him another glorious day of nineteen hours.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
