preconscious
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- adjective
- /ˌpriːˈkɒnʃəs/
- Specialized
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preconsciente
- These interpretations and associations are drawn from the preconscious processes, which alone cannot make interconnections among themselves as fluidly as can consciousness.
Examples
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It can also be activated in preconscious contents, which contain information, emotional values, and random associations.
Blog text (7) -
Attention becomes more unified and moves more into preconscious material and the state of pure awareness.
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By preconscious processes, I mean a state of mental functioning that goes on outside of conscious attention.
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These are in a preconscious state, but nevertheless involve perception, associations, memories, and expectancies.
Blog text (7) -
Because this process of cognitively merging the memory of space with the fiat optical information of the retina is always preconscious, we have not only no sense of this process within everyday vision, but also no memory of the fact that we once had to learn how to see.
Academic text (2002) -
As a bridge, it allows knowing to flow both ways, from deep, instinctive knowledge—call it reptilian or preconscious—toward conscious thinking and from conscious thought back toward subconscious knowledge.
Academic text (1998) -
His dreams often reveal preconscious thoughts that he wasn't aware of while awake.
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The therapist helped the patient access preconscious memories that influenced their behavior.
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In her art, she expresses preconscious feelings that arise before she fully understands them.
Antonyms
How Conscious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Preconscious comes from the parts pre- 'before' and conscious 'aware'. So a preconscious thought is one that sits just 'before' your awareness and can quickly become something you notice.