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conscience

/kɒnʃəns/
noun
  1. The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour.

    "Your conscience is your highest authority."

  2. (chiefly fiction) A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices.

  3. Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.

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