Conscience

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1. Noun

Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.

2. Noun

The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.

3. Noun

The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.

4. Noun

Tenderness of feeling; pity.

5. Noun

a feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty"
Vocabulary classified under Emotion and tone

6. Noun

conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging conscience"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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