consciences
- 1Plural of conscience.
The verdict weighed heavily on the jurors' consciences for years afterward.
Reformers appealed to the consciences of voters across the country.
Note
The count form of a noun that often does without one. In the singular, conscience can work as a mass noun (a matter of conscience), but the plural treats each person's moral sense as a separate thing, one per juror or voter. It also serves the personified sense: the inner voices that warn and lecture. Compare the conscience of a nation, one shared faculty, with the consciences of its citizens, many.
consciences is a form of conscience
conscience, noun: A person's inner sense of right and wrong, especially as it shapes how they judge their own behavior and past actions. Full entry
- Forms
- conscienceconsciences plural
- Spelling
- conscience → consciences: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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