Semiconscious vs Unconscious - What's the difference?
semiconscious | unconscious |
Neither fully conscious nor unconscious, partially aware but confused or distracted.
:After being hit on the head he was only semiconscious : he could walk, but he tended to go in circles.
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
As adjectives the difference between semiconscious and unconscious
is that semiconscious is neither fully conscious nor unconscious, partially aware but confused or distracted while unconscious is not awake; having no awareness.As a noun unconscious is
the unconscious mind.semiconscious
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(-)unconscious
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(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.