Gewissen
German, noun
Gewissen is spelled G-E-W-I-S-S-E-N (8 letters) and appears 51 times per million words in written German, the 1,666th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gewissen is a German neuter noun meaning “conscience (moral sense or faculty)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, gewissen is a different word: “strong genitive masculine/neuter singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Mechanismus, der die eigenen Handlungen und Urteile anhand geltender Moralvorstellungen bewertet”.
What does Gewissen mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterconscience (moral sense or faculty)
adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mechanismus, der die eigenen Handlungen und Urteile anhand geltender Moralvorstellungen bewertet
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Gewissen
- Gewissens genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Gewissen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Gewissen in German?
Gewissen appears 51 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).