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self-consciousness

noun
/ˌsɛlfˈkɑnʃəsnəs/US

Etymology

From self- + consciousness.

  1. borrowed from cōnscius
  2. suffixed as consciousness — “conscious + ness”
  3. prefixed as self-consciousness — “self- + consciousness”

Definitions

  1. The awareness of the self as an entity.

  2. Shyness

    Shyness; a feeling of unease in social situations.

The neighborhood

Derived

unself-consciousness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for self-consciousness. 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