Inner vs Conscience - What's the difference?
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Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.
Inside or closer to the inside of the body.
Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup.
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, title= Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure, ; innermost or essential, needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood.
Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 An inner part.
A forward who plays in or near the center of the field.
(cricket) A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.
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,
As nouns the difference between inner and conscience
is that inner is an inner part while conscience is the moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour.As an adjective inner
is being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.inner
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Synonyms
* interior * internalAntonyms
* outerDerived terms
* innernessNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----conscience
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(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.[”]
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- 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.
