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良心
An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. It is the internal moral compass of an individual.
Examples in context
彼は良心の呵責に耐えかねて罪を告白した。
He confessed his crime, unable to bear the pangs of conscience.
良心に従って行動することが常に正しいとは限らない。
Acting according to one's conscience is not always right.
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