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- Dictionaryconscience/ˈkɒnʃns/
noun
- 1. a person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behaviour: "he had a guilty conscience about his desires"
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CONSCIENCE definition: 1. the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad…. Learn more.
The meaning of CONSCIENCE is the sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good. How to use conscience in a sentence.
CONSCIENCE meaning: 1. the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad…. Learn more.
Conscience definition: the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action. See examples of CONSCIENCE used in a sentence.
Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you if what you are doing is wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, or if you have something on your conscience, you feel guilty because you know you have done something wrong.
A conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system. Conscience stands in contrast to elicited emotion or thought due to associations based on immediate sensory perceptions and reflexive responses, as in sympathetic central nervous system responses.
A conscience is a built-in sense of what's right and what's wrong. That sick feeling in your stomach after you lied to your brother about borrowing his skateboard? That might be your conscience bothering you.
