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coma1 |
a long, deep state of being unconscious, caused by disease or injury. |
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] |
ether |
a liquid that makes a person unable to think, feel, or move. Ether burns easily, has a strong smell, and was once used in medicine to make people unconscious during surgery. |
faint |
very tired, dizzy, or about to become unconscious. [3/4 definitions] |
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; unconscious. [1/2 definitions] |
narcotic |
a drug that causes a person to become sleepy or unconscious and that may be used as a medicine to dull pain or cause sleep. Narcotics can be dangerous when not used as a medicine and can become hard to give up. |
off |
into an unconscious state. [1/37 definitions] |
osmosis |
a gradual, subtle, and usu. unconscious absorption, as of ideals or mannerisms. [1/2 definitions] |
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