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self-confessed |
self-confidence |
self-confident |
self-congratulatory |
self-conjugate |
self-conscious
| self-consciously
| self-consciousness
| self-considering
| self-consistency
| self-consistent
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self-conscious
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective self-conscious has 2 senses
- self-conscious(s = adj.all) self-aware - aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts; "self-conscious awareness"; "self-conscious about their roles as guardians of the social values" Derived form noun self-consciousness2
- self-conscious(s = adj.all) Array - excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior; "self-conscious teenagers"; "wondered if she could ever be untidy without feeling self-conscious about it" Derived form noun self-consciousness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
self-conscious, a.
- Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others; as, the speaker was too self-conscious. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
self-conscious, adj.
1 socially inept through embarrassment or shyness.
2 Philos. having knowledge of one's own existence; self-contemplating.
1 socially inept through embarrassment or shyness.
2 Philos. having knowledge of one's own existence; self-contemplating.
Derivative
self-consciously adv. self-consciousness n.
THESAURUS
self-conscious
affected, anxious, apprehensive, artificial, awkward, bashful, confused, conscious, coy, demure, diffident, embarrassed, exhibitionist, formal, hesitant, ill at ease, inarticulate, insecure, mannered, modest, mousy, nervous, ostentatious, prim, reserved, retiring, self-effacing, shamefaced, shamefast, sheepish, shrinking, shy, skittish, stammering, stiff, stilted, timid, timorous, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsureROGET THESAURUS
self-conscious
Affectation
N affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan, affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental, conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
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