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adjective

Self-conscious adj.

Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self. "My self-conscious worth."

Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others; as, the speaker was too self-conscious.

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Etymology of 'Self-conscious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Self-conscious" Quotes from Famous Books

... all came clean clothes, and amongst them a stiffly-starched petticoat. This was one of Marjory's pet aversions. It crackled as she walked and made her feel self-conscious. Then there was the best frock to be put on, which always seemed several degrees tighter than the everyday ones. Then came breakfast, an hour later on Sundays, to distinguish it from week days. Another distinguishing mark was the absence of the usual ...

— Hunter's Marjory - A Story for Girls • Margaret Bruce Clarke

... remained fixed on the ribs of the horse, self-conscious and sombre, as though he were afraid to look about him at the badness of the world. And his slenderness, his rosy lips and pale, clear complexion, gave him the aspect of a delicate boy, notwithstanding the fluffy growth of golden hair on his cheeks. He pouted in ...

— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad

... breakfast-table—not that they were ever very loquacious, for Eugene had his meals up-stairs and he was the chatterbox of the party—but without any of her sister's fears or misgivings. So that she looked up at her aunt in happy freedom from any self-conscious embarrassment. ...

— Robin Redbreast - A Story for Girls • Mary Louisa Molesworth

... something inside of his head responded, and with this sensation he regained self-consciousness. (This is to be doubted. As a rule, subjects in this stage of hypnotism do not feel any sensation that they can remember, and do not become self-conscious.) ...

— Complete Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism • A. Alpheus

... that, though Lockwood could not have told when and how the acquaintance between him and Felice began and progressed, the young woman herself could. But this is guesswork. Felice being a woman, and part Spanish at that, was vastly more self-conscious, more disingenuous, than the man, the Anglo-Saxon. Also she had that fearlessness that very pretty women have. In her more refined and city-bred sisters this fearlessness would be called poise, or, at the ...

— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris

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