conscience
Meaning of conscience
- 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
Ben was suffering a pang of conscience
Middle English (also in the sense ‘inner thoughts or knowledge’): via Old French from Latin conscientia, from conscient- ‘being privy to’, from the verb conscire, from con- ‘with’ + scire ‘know’.
Information about conscience
- It is a name.
- The plural form of conscience is: consciences.
- Languages in which conscience is used:
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Hyphenation of conscience
con-science
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- conscience is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
conscience synonyms
Meaning scruples:
Meaning a lesson that can be derived from a story or experience:
Meaning a level of quality or attainment:
Meaning the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something:
Meaning a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning:
Meaning moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity:
Meaning a system of religious belief; a faith:
Meaning an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof:
Meaning a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad:
Meaning an uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear, especially about one's own conduct; a misgiving:
Translation of conscience
- Spanish: conciencia
- French: conscience
- German: Gewissen
- Italian: coscienza
- Portuguese: consciência
Words that rhyme with conscience
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