- 1. n. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. Source: opted
- 2. n. The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense. Source: opted
- 3. n. The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty. Source: opted
- 4. n. Tenderness of feeling; pity. Source: opted
- 5. n. motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions Source: wordnet
- 6. n. conformity to one's own sense of right conduct Source: wordnet
- 7. n. a feeling of shame when you do something immoral Source: wordnet
- 8. n:100 n. motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions n. conformity to one's own sense of right conduct n. a feeling of shame when you do something immoral Source: ecdict
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