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- Dictionaryself-conscious/ˌsɛlfˈkɒnʃəs/
adjective
- 1. feeling undue awareness of oneself, one's appearance, or one's actions: "I feel a bit self-conscious parking my scruffy old car"
- 2. (especially of an action or intention) deliberate and with full awareness, especially affectedly so: "her self-conscious identification with the upper classes"
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nervous or uncomfortable because you are worried about what people think about you or your actions: He looked uncomfortable, like a self-conscious adolescent. Fewer examples. I always feel a bit self-conscious in a hat. Stop staring - you make me self-conscious. She's very self-conscious about her nose.
The meaning of SELF-CONSCIOUS is conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself : aware of oneself as an individual. How to use self-conscious in a sentence.
Self-conscious means overly aware of and sensitive to attention from others, often to the point of feeling anxious or embarrassed. In this sense, self-conscious is always used negatively. A person can be self-conscious in general, or about a particular aspect of themselves.
If you describe someone or something as self-conscious, you mean that they are strongly aware of who or what they are. [formal] They were forged by them, moreover, into a self-conscious nation as early as the 10th century. Putting the work together is a very self-conscious process.
Self-consciousness is a heightened sense of awareness of oneself. It is not to be confused with consciousness in the sense of qualia.
Use the adjective self-conscious to describe someone who is ill at ease or uncomfortable with himself. A self-conscious person might worry about how he looks or whether he's saying the right things.
self-conscious (about something) nervous or embarrassed about your appearance or what other people think of you. He's always been self-conscious about being so short. She was a shy, self-conscious girl.
