semiconsciously
- adverb
- /ˌsɛmɪˈkɒnʃəsli/
:
semiconscientemente
- He answered the question semiconsciously, without fully processing what was being asked.
Examples
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Rather, it is the narrative we are continuously and mostly semiconsciously composing about ourselves that ensures us that we are knowable persons, rooted in meanings and relationships across time and space, as well as in a physical body.
Academic text (2000) -
While driving, he semiconsciously followed the familiar route, his mind drifting to other thoughts.
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So I’d known, even horizontally and semiconsciously as a baby, something different: the tall hills and serpentine one-ways of upstate NY.
Fiction book (1998) -
She was semiconsciously swaying to the music, lost in thought.
Antonyms
How Conscious
Surface Forms
Morphology
semiconsciously = semiconscious (transparent) = semi + conscious + ly
The adverb is formed regularly from the adjective 'semiconscious' with -ly.
Etymology
Semiconsciously comes from semi- meaning 'half', as in semicircle, and conscious meaning 'aware'. So semiconsciously describes doing something 'half aware', which is why it fits when someone is partly but not fully awake.