Definition of: subconscious

(sub·kon′shəs) adjective
1. Only dimly conscious; not clearly discerned by the conscious subject; lacking intellectual clearness.
2. Psychol. Denoting such phenomena of mental life as are not attended by full consciousness, as the many automatic processes involved in the performance of familiar actions.
—noun
1. That portion of mental activity not directly in the focus of consciousness but sometimes susceptible to recall by the proper stimulus.
2. Psychoanal. The preconscious.
—sub·con′scious·ly adverb
—sub·con·scious·ness noun