Etymograph

English

foreconscious

From fore- + conscious.

Formed from fore- + conscious

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before, formerly’

Proto-Germanic *fura- ‘before, in front of, for’

Proto-West Germanic *forē- ‘before, in front of, fore-, pre-’

English fore-

Latin sciō ‘to know’

Latin cōnscius ‘conscious, conscious of guilt’

English conscious

Today it means

noun In the psychology of Sigmund Freud, part of the mind that is available to the conscious if mentally summoned, contrasted with the unconscious, which is not directly accessible.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / foreconscious