American Heritage Dictionary: conscience
Directly preserves the broader awareness layer.
Definitions: obsolete consciousness or awareness; etymology- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. Moral awareness is early and central, but the Latin family and an obsolete English sense also include consciousness or general awareness.
/ˈkɒnʃəns/ · noun
The moral sense or awareness of one's conduct, inherited through medieval French from the Latin knowing-family.
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Directly preserves the broader awareness layer.
Definitions: obsolete consciousness or awareness; etymologyDocuments the moral sense and the deeper knowing family.
Definitions and Word HistoryThe dossier does not erase morality; it places it inside the wider recorded semantic field.