Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: unconsciousness
IPA transcription: [,ʌnk'ɑnʃəsnɪs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: unconsciousness
    Meaning: a state lacking normal awareness of the self or environment
Usage examples
  • In sublime unconsciousness of heroism Fraser records:
  • I heard her sweeping away; and soon after she was gone, I suppose I had a species of fit: unconsciousness closed the scene.
  • His feeling for her, lulled into unconsciousness by the dull round of domesticity, had been sharply stirred by the loss of her presence.
  • There was something awful in his unconsciousness of the figure that could have put out its hand and touched him as he stooped over his labour.
  • A blinding light, a frantic oscillation of the Atom Smasher, a sense of death, awful and indescribable--and stark unconsciousness rushed over Jim.
  • If he were forced to speech, he built up his phrases upon the foundation of a single word, "ruddy"; but apparently with entire unconsciousness that it had its uses as an oath.
  • The note Liddy had found in Gertrude's scrap-basket was from him, and it was he who had startled me into unconsciousness by the clothes chute, and, with Gertrude's help, had carried me to Louise's room.