# conscience

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkɒn.ʃəns/ · frequency rank #7,547

## Definitions
1. The ethical or moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions.
2. A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.
3. Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.

## Etymology
From Middle English conscience, from Old French conscience, from Latin conscientia (“knowledge within oneself”), from consciens, present participle of conscire (“to know, to be conscious (of wrong)”), from com- (“together”) + scire (“to know”).

## Common misspellings (16)
`cconscience`, `cnoscience`, `concsience`, `connscience`, `consccience`, `consceince`, `consciance`, `consciecne`, `consciencce`, `conscienec`, `consciennce`, `conscinece`, `consicence`, `consscience`, `cosncience`, `ocnscience`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/conscience