unconsciousness
uhn kon shuhs nis
- n a state lacking normal awareness of the self or environment
- Physician Winter, a Manhattan psychosomaticist, was impressed by Hubbard's theory that the mind can register impressions ("engrams") even during unconsciousness.
- My head was slammed against the wall until I collapsed into unconsciousness.
- But it can be "switched off" by unconsciousness from injury or anesthesia, more often by acute emotional shock or physical pain.