English
pseudoconscience
From pseudo- + conscience.
Formed from pseudo- + conscience
Proto-Indo-European *skey- ‘to split, to dissect’
Latin cōnsciēns ‘conscious’
Latin conscientia ‘knowledge within oneself’
Old French conscience
Middle English conscience
English conscience
Today it means
noun A mindset or mental faculty that is mistaken for a conscience but lacks the truly ethical nature thereof.
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Etymograph / pseudoconscience