Conscience vs Optic - What's the difference?
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The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour.
* 1949 , , as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist ,
* 1951 , (Isaac Asimov), publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 14, page 175, ¶ 7
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=18 (chiefly fiction) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.
(obsolete) Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
* 1603 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , act 3, scene 1,
Of, or relating to the eye or to vision.
* Milton
Of, or relating to optics or optical instruments.
An eye.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:The difference is as great between / The optics seeing, as the object seen.
*1819 , (Lord Byron), Don Juan , I:
*:how they, / Who saw those figures on the margin kiss all, / Could turn their optics to the text and pray, / Is more than I know
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics ."
A lens or other part of an optical instrument that interacts with light.
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, title= A measuring device with a small window, attached to an upside-down bottle, used to dispense alcoholic drinks in a bar.
As nouns the difference between conscience and optic
is that conscience is the moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour while optic is an eye.As an adjective optic is
of, or relating to the eye or to vision.conscience
English
(wikipedia conscience)Noun
(en noun)- Never do anything against conscience , even if the state demands it.
- [“]Twer is not a friend of mine testifying against me reluctantly and for conscience ’ sake, as the prosecution would have you believe. He is a spy, performing his paid job.[”]
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience ,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
- Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
- And thus the native hue of resolution
- Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "conscience": good, bad, guilty. * Phrases: To make conscience of, To make a matter of conscience, to act according to the dictates of conscience concerning (any matter), or to scruple to act contrary to its dictates.Derived terms
* consciencelike * conscience money * conscience vote * conscientious * make conscience * pang of conscienceSee also
* synteresisExternal links
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English
Alternative forms
* optick (obsolete) * optique (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- The moon, whose orb / Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.
Noun
(en noun)Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}