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Routine vs Unconscious - What's the difference?

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Routine is a related term of unconscious.


As nouns the difference between routine and unconscious

is that routine is while unconscious is (psychology) the unconscious mind.

As an adjective unconscious is

not awake; having no awareness.

routine

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
  • A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
  • :
  • *
  • *:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
  • A set piece of an entertainer's act.
  • (label) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • According to established procedure.
  • Regular; habitual.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
  • Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 3, author=David Ornstein, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Macc Tel-Aviv 1-2 Stoke , passage=Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel.}}

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    unconscious

    English

    (Unconscious mind)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not awake; having no awareness.
  • She lay unconscious on the floor.
  • Without directed thought or awareness.
  • My sudden fright was an unconscious response.
  • (sports) engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
  • * 1998 , Charles Rosen, The Cockroach Basketball League , page 144
  • Sam is unconscious , filling it, drilling it from every conceivable angle. Lem is awful and Cooper seems confused. Josh shoots too often.
  • * 1999 , Joseph Leininger, Terry Whalin, Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange , page 10
  • "I was unconscious ," the basketball player gushes. "It seemed like everything I threw up toward the basket went straight in."
  • * 2002 , Alexander Wolff, Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure , page 292
  • Someone who has reeled off a string of baskets will say, "I was unconscious," as if he were following the Zen injunction to be mindful while suspending thought.

    Synonyms

    * insentient, oblivious, out of it, out on one's feet, unaware * (skilled performance without conscious control) in the zone, on a roll

    Noun

    (singulare tantum)
  • (psychology) The unconscious mind