self-consciousness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˌsɛlfˈkɑnʃəsnəs/ (US)
Etymology
From self- + consciousness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The awareness of the self as an entity.
[A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude in human thought and action.
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165:
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(uncountable) Shyness; a feeling of unease in social situations.
Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”
2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian:
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pl samoświadomość (awareness of the self as an entity) · de Selbstbewusstsein (awareness of the self as an entity) · th อัตพิชาน (awareness of the self as an entity) · es timidez (shyness) · es autoconciencia (shyness) · pl nieśmiałość (shyness) · ru засте́нчивость (shyness) · fi minätietoisuus (awareness of the self as an entity) · fi arkuus (shyness) · es autoconsciencia (awareness of the self as an entity) · ta தன்னுணர்வு (awareness of the self as an entity) · ru самоосмысле́ние (awareness of the self as an entity) · ja 自己意識 (awareness of the self as an entity) · fr conscience de soi (awareness of the self as an entity) · de Gehemmtheit (shyness) · it impaccio (shyness) · cmn 社交不安感 (shyness) · grc συναίσθησις (awareness of the self as an entity) · mk трема (shyness) · mk самосвест (awareness of the self as an entity) · de Befangenheit (shyness) · fr timidité (shyness) · it autocoscienza (awareness of the self as an entity) · pl zakłopotanie (shyness) · es cohibición (shyness) · ru самосозна́ние (awareness of the self as an entity) · th ความสำนึกตน (awareness of the self as an entity) · sv förlägenhet (shyness) · cmn 羞怯 (shyness) · bg самосъзнание (awareness of the self as an entity) · fi ujous (shyness) · es inseguridad (shyness) · de Verlegenheit (shyness) · sv självmedvetenhet (awareness of the self as an entity) · cmn 自我意識 /自我意识 (awareness of the self as an entity) · ja 自己意識 (shyness)