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Self-consciousness

noun

Embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you. Synonyms: uncomfortableness, uneasiness.

Self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you.

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"Self-consciousness" Quotes from Famous Books

... imperatively demanded by our moral and religious consciousness, is that of a person. But personality implies intellectual and moral attributes; and the only direct and immediate knowledge which we have of such attributes is derived from the testimony of self-consciousness, bearing witness to their existence in a certain manner in ourselves. But when we endeavour to transfer the conception of personality, thus obtained, to the domain of theology, we meet with certain difficulties, which, while they are not sufficient to hinder us from believing ...

— The Philosophy of the Conditioned • H. L. Mansel

... her life Patty felt shy about singing. Usually she had no trace of self-consciousness, but to-night she experienced a feeling of embarrassment she had never known before. She realized this, and scolded herself roundly for it. "You idiot!" she observed, mentally, to her own soul; "if you want to make a good impression, you'd better ...

— Patty's Suitors • Carolyn Wells

... and the graceful and bright-eyed woman who wore it, were well suited to each other; and as she stepped lightly across the room and gave a sprightly nod to her uncle, there was a natural ease about her gait and manner which contrasted favourably with the self-consciousness with which young ladies exhibit themselves and their smart dresses ...

— Garman and Worse - A Norwegian Novel • Alexander Lange Kielland

... the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries was one of intense political life, of advanced national self-consciousness, of rich, highly-organized society. It was moreover a period of common ideas, movements, and tendencies over all Europe. Several factors enter ...

— Song and Legend From the Middle Ages • William D. McClintock and Porter Lander McClintock

... had never in his life kept a diary. He regarded that practice as a useless puerility and usually an indulgence in morbid self-communing and unwholesome self-consciousness. But it was his practice, sometimes, late at night, to set down upon paper such thoughts as had interested him during the day, for the sole sake of formulating them in his own mind. Often he would in this way discuss with himself questions ...

— A Captain in the Ranks - A Romance of Affairs • George Cary Eggleston

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