inconscient

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In minerals there are "constant tendencies" which are nothing but obscure wills; what we currently term weight, fluidity, impenetrability, electricity, chemical affinities, are nothing but natural wills or inconscient wills.

From Initiation into Philosophy by Faguet, Émile

On Selden's part, no doubt, the wound inflicted was inconscient; he had never guessed her foolish secret; but Lily—Lily must have known!

From House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith

Kate Orme was not without an amused perception of her future husband's point of view; but she could enter into it with the tolerance which allows for the inconscient element in all our judgments.

From Sanctuary by Wharton, Edith

What I'd never had a taste of was the simple inconscient sort that one breathes in like the air….

From Crucial Instances by Wharton, Edith

There are few sights more ominous than that of a crowd thus observing itself, watching in inconscient suspense for the unknown crisis which its own passions have engendered.

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith