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self-conscious


adjective

  1. excessively aware of being observed by others.
  2. conscious of oneself or one’s own being.

adjective

  1. unduly aware of oneself as the object of the attention of others; embarrassed
  2. conscious of one’s existence

adj.1680s, “aware of one’s action,” a word of the English Enlightenment (Locke was using it by 1690), from self- + conscious. Morbid sense of “preoccupied with one’s own personality” is attested from 1834 (in J.S. Mill). Related: Self-consciously; self-consciousness.

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