| bruxism |
the unconscious habit of grinding one's teeth, either while sleeping or waking. |
| collapse |
to become suddenly incapacitated or unconscious because of disease or exhaustion. [1/7 definitions] |
| collective unconscious |
in Jungian psychology, the memories and other psychic contents that are accumulated by the experience of all preceding generations and that dwell within the unconscious mind of each individual. |
| comatose |
in a coma; unconscious. [1/2 definitions] |
| complex |
a set of desires, memories, and impulses that operate together in a person's unconscious mind and cause certain patterns of feeling, thought, and action. [1/5 definitions] |
| death wish |
a usu. unconscious desire for one's own or another's death. |
| defense mechanism |
in psychology, an unconscious process that submerges or opposes ideas or actions that would be painful or inappropriate. [1/2 definitions] |
| depth psychology |
the psychological study of the unconscious mind. |
| dryness |
quiet, seemingly unconscious humor. [1/3 definitions] |
| ego |
in psychoanalytic theory, the personality component that mediates between the unconscious drives and external reality. [1/5 definitions] |
| Electra complex |
in Freudian psychoanalysis, the unconscious desire of a daughter for sexual gratification from her father, or her wish to take her mother's place in her father's affections. (Cf. Oedipus complex.) |
| Freudian slip |
a mistake in speech that is thought to reveal unconscious motives, wishes, or the like. |
| ideomotor |
in psychology, of or denoting an unconscious physical motion that is stimulated by an idea. |
| insensate |
temporarily without normal sensations; unconscious. [1/3 definitions] |
| insensible |
without normal sensations; unconscious. [1/4 definitions] |
| involuntary |
not subject to conscious control; unconscious or automatic. [1/2 definitions] |
| knockout |
the act of striking a person down and rendering him or her unconscious. [1/3 definitions] |
| knock out |
to cause (someone) to become unconscious, or to powerfully cause to go to sleep. [1/5 definitions] |
| lifeless |
having or appearing to have no life; inanimate; unconscious. [1/3 definitions] |
| off |
into an unconscious state. [1/37 definitions] |
| osmosis |
a gradual, subtle, and usu. unconscious absorption, as of ideals or mannerisms. [1/2 definitions] |