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Self-consciousness   /sɛlf-kˈɑnʃəsnəs/   Listen
Self-consciousness

noun
1.
Embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you.  Synonyms: uncomfortableness, uneasiness.
2.
Self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you.  Antonym: unselfconsciousness.






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"Self-consciousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... paced the stage, consulted, and disagreed. Connie practised a fancy step in a wide circle, her skirt caught up, her face quite free of self-consciousness. Julia sat on a box, soberly looking from ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

... man went on, as if talking rather to himself than to the others. "To me the Purpose of Life is self-consciousness, the total Purpose I mean. God seeking to know God. Eternal Force one immeasurable Thought. Humanity the developing consciousness of the little fragment of the universe within our ken. Art, the expression of that consciousness, the outward ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller

... quite motionless. There was no trace of embarrassment or self-consciousness in her pose. When Mrs. Barrett said, "This is my niece, Magdalen Crawford," she merely inclined her head in grave, silent acknowledgement. As she moved forward to take Marian's basket, she seemed oddly out of place in the low, crowded room. Her presence seemed ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... on power wonderfully in the last few months.... He moves with men, but he sees beyond. I know that! And all makes for the most glowing optimism. He sees that our race is on the shadowy borders of cosmic consciousness, as the brightest of our domestic animals to-day are on the borders of self-consciousness. He sees that Woman will be the great teacher when humanity rises. Every thing is bright to him in this shocking modern hour, for it heralds the advent of the Risen Woman!... Yes, I am full of this. I have been getting his letters, ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort

... self-consciousness and impertinence which detract so much from the value of most recent books of travel, it may be doubted whether, since the French Revolution gave birth to the Caliban of Democracy, there has been a tourist without ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 65, March, 1863 • Various


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