Conscience
Conscience noun - Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions.
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Synonyms for Conscience
Responsibility and conscience are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Responsibility" instead a noun "Conscience".
Responsibility
Responsibility noun - The state of being held as the cause of something that needs to be set right.
Conscience and responsibility are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Conscience" instead a noun "Responsibility".
Nearby Words: responsible, responsibly
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Related pairs
- commitment and conscience
- commitment and responsibility
- care and conscience
- care and responsibility
- business and conscience
- business and responsibility
- liability and conscience
- liability and responsibility
- duty and conscience
- duty and responsibility
- obligation and conscience
- obligation and responsibility
- charge and conscience
- charge and responsibility
How words are described
| individual | individual conscience | individual responsibility |
| human | human conscience | human responsibility |
| full | full conscience | full responsibility |
| public | public conscience | public responsibility |
| Other adjectives: complete, free, true, deep, heavy, actual, collective, social, moral, new, apparent, unwanted, overall. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Conscience Makes You Go Back: Leaving someone in trouble, but takes responsibility in helping them anyways.
Source: Responsibility Tropes -
The name is symbolic of Christopher's exasperating tendency to take burdens on himself, like responsibility for his mother's death and Cecily's life.Kate: You and your conscience!
Source: Literature / The Perilous Gard - Superego: Jander Sunstar — the voice of reason, restraint, responsibility, and conscience.
Source: Freudian Trio / Literature
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