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false consciousnesses

false consciousnesses is the plural of false consciousness.

Meaning of false consciousness

Noun

false consciousness (plural false consciousnesses)

  1. (Marxism, including its brand of social sciences) A faulty understanding of the true character of social processes due to ideology.
    • The author is less inclined than Jung to treat freedom as an ideological illusion or false consciousness.2007, Roy E. Allen, Human Ecology Economics, →ISBN, page 187

Questions about false consciousnesses

What is false consciousnesses the plural of?
False consciousnesses is the plural of false consciousness.

Words near false consciousnesses in the dictionary

  1. false colour
  2. false colours
  3. false conception
  4. false conceptions
  5. false consciousness
  6. false consciousnesses
  7. false cousin
  8. false cousins
  9. false crab
  10. false crabs
  11. false croup

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