Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Aware of oneself as an individual or of one's own being, actions, or thoughts.
- adjective Socially ill at ease.
- adjective Excessively conscious of one's appearance or manner.
- adjective Showing the effects of self-consciousness; stilted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Aware of one's self; having self-consciousness.
- Conscious of one's self as an object of observation to others; apt to think of how one appears to others.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self.
- adjective Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
aware ofoneself as anindividual being - adjective
uncomfortably over-conscious of one'sappearance orbehaviour - adjective
ill at ease socially
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts
- adjective excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior
Etymologies
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Examples
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And though I don’t believe in the idea of self-conscious secrets in any Chinatown, I hope the stories collected in this volume serve to open up a newly expanded view into these neighborhoods as revealed by multiple generations of residents.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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And though I don’t believe in the idea of self-conscious secrets in any Chinatown, I hope the stories collected in this volume serve to open up a newly expanded view into these neighborhoods as revealed by multiple generations of residents.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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And though I don’t believe in the idea of self-conscious secrets in any Chinatown, I hope the stories collected in this volume serve to open up a newly expanded view into these neighborhoods as revealed by multiple generations of residents.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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And though I don’t believe in the idea of self-conscious secrets in any Chinatown, I hope the stories collected in this volume serve to open up a newly expanded view into these neighborhoods as revealed by multiple generations of residents.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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And though I don’t believe in the idea of self-conscious secrets in any Chinatown, I hope the stories collected in this volume serve to open up a newly expanded view into these neighborhoods as revealed by multiple generations of residents.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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The dread I felt stemmed directly from the knowledge that the Shrek sequels took everything good about the first film, and trashed them with ham-handed comedy, self-conscious star voices, and a surfeit of pop culture references.
Dan Persons: The Sublime Syncretism of Kung Fu Panda 2 Dan Persons 2011
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The film is stylistically self-conscious, almost to a fault, and almost unmanageably ambitious.
Surprise: A Newly Exhilarating 'X-Men' Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Dropping the Lord's Prayer seemed reasonable, although some other accommodations have been self-conscious and clumsy, like calling Hallowe'en "Black and Orange Day."
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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The purpose behind the creation of Andrea was not to create a self-conscious being, but create a program that could give the illusion of consciousness.
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The dread I felt stemmed directly from the knowledge that the Shrek sequels took everything good about the first film, and trashed them with ham-handed comedy, self-conscious star voices, and a surfeit of pop culture references.
Dan Persons: The Sublime Syncretism of Kung Fu Panda 2 Dan Persons 2011
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