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    self-consciousness
    /ˌsɛlfˈkɒnʃəsnəs/

    noun

    • 1. undue awareness of oneself, one's appearance, or one's actions: "people warm to her candour and lack of self-consciousness"
    • 2. the quality of being carried out deliberately and with full awareness, especially in an affected way: "the self-consciousness of the opening scene devolves steadily into parody"

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  2. Psychologists frequently distinguish between two kinds of self-consciousness, private and public. Private self-consciousness is a tendency to introspect and examine one's inner self and feelings. Public self-consciousness is an awareness of the self as it is viewed by others.

  3. The meaning of SELF-CONSCIOUS is conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself : aware of oneself as an individual. How to use self-conscious in a sentence.

  4. a nervous or uncomfortable feeling that you have when you are worried about what people think about you or your actions: Many adolescents suffer from crippling self-consciousness. After the first 10 minutes, people have lost the feeling of self-consciousness, and they're just enjoying the experience. Fewer examples.

  5. Jul 13, 2017 · Self-consciousness is a form of consciousness that is paradigmatically expressed in English by the words “I”, “me”, and “my”, terms that each of us uses to refer to ourselves as such.

  6. a nervous or uncomfortable feeling that you have when you are worried about what people think about you or your actions: Many adolescents suffer from crippling self-consciousness. After the first 10 minutes, people have lost the feeling of self-consciousness, and they're just enjoying the experience. Fewer examples.

  7. nervous or uncomfortable because you are worried about what people think about you or your actions: He looked uncomfortable, like a self-conscious adolescent. Fewer examples. I always feel a bit self-conscious in a hat. Stop staring - you make me self-conscious. She's very self-conscious about her nose.

  8. Self-conscious means overly aware of and sensitive to attention from others, often to the point of feeling anxious or embarrassed. In this sense, self-conscious is always used negatively. A person can be self-conscious in general, or about a particular aspect of themselves.

  9. Introduction. Throughout our waking life, we are conscious of a variety of things. We are often conscious of other people, of cars, trees, beetles, and other objects around us. We are conscious of their features: their colors, their shapes, and the sound they make.

  10. self-consciousness about something (often disapproving) actions or an attitude that show you are aware of the effect that is being produced. She plays the role without self-consciousness about the importance of her performance.

  11. self-con·scious·ness, noun. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024. How to use self-conscious in a sentence. It is like a stroke of lightning, and is accepted with a primeval simplicity and un-selfconsciousness. The Life of Bret Harte | Henry Childs Merwin.