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Definition of Self-consciousness

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

2. Noun. Self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you.

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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