Definition of Self-consciousness

1. Noun. Embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you.

Exact synonyms: Uncomfortableness, Uneasiness
Generic synonyms: Embarrassment
Derivative terms: Self-conscious, Uncomfortable, Uneasy

2. Noun. Self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you.
Generic synonyms: Self-awareness
Derivative terms: Self-conscious
Antonyms: Unselfconsciousness

Definition of Self-consciousness

1. Noun. The awareness of the self as an entity. ¹

2. Noun. Shyness. A feeling of unease in social situations. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-consciousness

self-conceited
self-conceitedly
self-concern
self-condemnation
self-confessed
self-confessed(a)
self-confidence
self-confident
self-confidently
self-congratulate
self-congratulation
self-congratulatory
self-conjugate
self-conscious
self-consciously
self-consciousness (current term)
self-consistent
self-contained
self-contemplation
self-contempt
self-contradiction
self-contradictory
self-control
self-controlled
self-critical
self-criticism
self-cultivation
self-curing resin
self-deal
self-dealing

Literary usage of Self-consciousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philosophical Review by Sage School of Philosophy, Cunningham, Gustavus Watts, 1881-, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Jacob Gould Schurman (1897)
"By unity of self-consciousness is meant the continuity and unity of the ... Degree of self-consciousness means greater or less vividness of emotions. ..."

2. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Social consciousness and self-consciousness. The conflict of interests may take a ... The child undoubtedly comes to self-consciousness through his use of ..."

3. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Social consciousness and self-consciousness. The conflict of interests may take a ... The child undoubtedly comes to self-consciousness through his use of ..."

4. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Social consciousness and self-consciousness. The conflict of interests may take a ... The child undoubtedly comes to self-consciousness through his use of ..."

5. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"object, the presentation of satisfaction of want as an object, is quite different from mere want; that it implies self-consciousness, consciousness of ..."

6. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"The understanding or mind which contained the manifold in intuition, in and through the act itself of its own self-consciousness, in other words, ..."

7. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"The understanding or mind which contained the manifold in intuition, in and through the act itself of its own self-consciousness, in other words, ..."

8. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE ANOMALIES OF self-consciousness.1 ... The philosophical aspects of the problem of self-consciousness belong altogether elsewhere. ..."

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