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subconscious

1 adjective
     
Related topics: Psychology, Psychiatry
sub‧con‧scious1
MP subconscious feelings, desires etc are hidden in your mind and affect your behaviour, but you do not know that you have them:
a subconscious fear of failure
—subconsciously adverb:
Subconsciously, he blames himself for the accident.
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