Synonyms for conscience
ˈkɒn ʃənscon·science

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.4 / 20 votes

1. conscience

   Synonyms:
   sense, intuition, integrity, principle

   Antonyms:
   license

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1. conscience, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrongnoun

   motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions

   Synonyms:
   moral sense, sense of right and wrong, scruples

2. consciencenoun

   conformity to one's own sense of right conduct

   "a person of unflagging conscience"

   Synonyms:
   moral sense, sense of right and wrong, scruples

3. consciencenoun

   a feeling of shame when you do something immoral

   "he has no conscience about his cruelty"

   Synonyms:
   moral sense, sense of right and wrong, scruples

Matched Categories

1. • Ethical Motive
   • Morality
   • Shame

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1. conchenx

   conchenx is a person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behaviour.

   "he had a guilty conscience about his desires"

   Submitted by Conchenxshoes on July 3, 2019  

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1. consciencenoun

   Synonyms:
   moral sense, moral faculty, the still small voice

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1. consciencenoun

   Associated words:
   casuistry, erinys, compunction, qualm

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1. List of paraphrases for "conscience":

   consciousness, awareness, conscientious, aware, conciencia, conscious, opinion, self-awareness, objector

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1. Rick Santorum:

   Christians are being beheaded and crucified by these savages. People of good conscience who want to protect Christians are not recruiting tools for ISIL.

2. Wesley D'Amico:

   When the conscience does not work, the body pays the bill.”

3. Vanna Bonta:

   There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

4. Henry Hon:

   The conscience is the innate mechanism God created in human nature to sound an inner alarm in an attempt to prevent people from taking harmful actions.

5. John Milton:

   Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.