adj :  not present in consciousness but capable of being recalled without encountering any inner resistance or repression pre*con*scious*ly adv 
, n :  the preconscious part of the psyche esp. in psychoanalysis - called also foreconscious  .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  hy·per·ki·ne·sis  prog·no·sis 
 
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