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self-conscious

adj

Etymology

From self- + conscious.

  1. borrowed from cōnscius
  2. prefixed as self-conscious — “self + conscious”

Definitions

  1. Aware of oneself as an individual being.

  2. Excessively conscious of one's appearance or behaviour.

  3. Uncomfortably over-conscious of one's appearance or behaviour

    Uncomfortably over-conscious of one's appearance or behaviour; socially ill at ease.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for self-conscious. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA