self-consciousness Meaning and Definition
1. n. self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you
2. n. embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
Self-consciousness is an acute sense of self-awareness. It is a preoccupation with oneself, as opposed to the philosophical state of self-awareness, which is the awareness that one exists as an individual being; although some writers use both terms interchangeably or synonymously.
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