Unconscious vs Preoccupied - What's the difference?
unconscious | preoccupied |
Not awake; having no awareness.
Without directed thought or awareness.
(sports) engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
* 1998 , Charles Rosen, The Cockroach Basketball League , page 144
* 1999 , Joseph Leininger, Terry Whalin, Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange , page 10
* 2002 , Alexander Wolff, Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure , page 292
(psychology) The unconscious mind
Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.
(preoccupy)
As adjectives the difference between unconscious and preoccupied
is that unconscious is not awake; having no awareness while preoccupied is concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.As a noun unconscious
is (psychology) the unconscious mind.As a verb preoccupied is
(preoccupy).unconscious
English
(Unconscious mind)Adjective
(en adjective)- She lay unconscious on the floor.
- My sudden fright was an unconscious response.
- Sam is unconscious , filling it, drilling it from every conceivable angle. Lem is awful and Cooper seems confused. Josh shoots too often.
- "I was unconscious ," the basketball player gushes. "It seemed like everything I threw up toward the basket went straight in."
- 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 rollNoun
(singulare tantum)preoccupied
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday.