Dictionary

unselfconscious en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + selfconscious.

Meanings

1. Not self-conscious; natural and genuine.
   • Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man. 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
   • After a minute's silence he spoke again in Tibetan, in a voice creaky with age but curiously vibrant with the unselfconscious habit of authority.
   • In the lighted houses of the Meisners, of the Schumperts and the Persons and the Roots, people were clearly at home—whole families grouped around tables, young heads bent over homework, dens aflicker with TV, toddlers careening, a grandparent testing a tea bag’s virtue with a third soaking. These were spirited, unselfconscious houses. 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
   • The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous. 1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
2. Lacking a sense of self.
   • In fact, if the quotation be read over again with this interpretation (which I do not say Wordsworth intended) that the 'birth' spoken of is the birth or evolution of the distinctively self-conscious Man from the Animals and the animal-natured, unself-conscious human beings of a preceding age, then the parable unfolds itself perfectly naturally and convincingly. 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 174:

Forms

Antonyms

self-conscious

Deriveds

unselfconsciousness

Relateds

unselfconsciously

Translations (5)

eo nememkonscia (not self-conscious; natural and genuine) · de selbstverständlich (not self-conscious; natural and genuine) · de natürlich (not self-conscious; natural and genuine) · de selbstsicher (not self-conscious; natural and genuine) · de unbefangen (not self-conscious; natural and genuine)