Unconscious vs. Preconscious — What's the Difference?

Not awake and aware of and responding to one's environment

In psychoanalysis, preconscious is the loci preceding consciousness. Thoughts are preconscious when they are unconscious at a particular moment, but are not repressed.

Done or existing without one realizing

The memories or feelings that are not part of one's immediate awareness but that can be recalled through conscious effort.

The part of the mind which is inaccessible to the conscious mind but which affects behaviour and emotions

Prior to consciousness.

Lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception; not conscious.

(psychology) (of memories) that one is not aware of, but which can be recalled through conscious effort

Temporarily lacking consciousness.

(psychology) The sum of these memories

Occurring in the absence of conscious awareness or thought

Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

Without conscious control; involuntary or unintended

The division of the mind in psychoanalytic theory containing elements of psychic makeup, such as memories or repressed desires, that are not subject to conscious perception or control but that often affect conscious thoughts and behavior.

Not awake; having no awareness.

(psychology) Without directed thought or awareness.

(sports) engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.

(psychology) That part of mind that is not consciously perceived.

Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man.

Not known or apprehended by consciousness; resulting from neural activity of which a person is not aware; as, an unconscious movement; unconscious cerebration.

Having no knowledge by experience; - followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke.

Unintentional; as, an unconscious insult.

Usually the unconscious; that part of the mind in which mental processes occur that are not accesible to the awareness, but may significantly influence behavior.

That part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware

Not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead;

Without conscious volition

(followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving;