0 the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad things that you have done or things you feel responsible for:
1 the feeling that you know and should do what is right and should avoid doing what is wrong, and that makes you feel guilty when you have done something you know is wrong:
The charity used photos of starving children in an attempt to jolt the public conscience .
Dan's mentioning Julia pricked my conscience and I gave her a call.
As noted above, negative feelings play important roles in impulse control, empathy, and conscience.
Thus understood, conscience is unobjectionable but can claim no special dignity or respect.
Debates about the liberty of religious conscience turned into debates about freedom of the press and freedom of speech.