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   Self-con·scious·ness

   /ˌselfˈkänSHəsnəs/

   

   noun

   • 1. undue awareness of oneself, one's appearance, or one's actions: "people warm to her candor and lack of self-consciousness"
   • 2. the quality of being carried out deliberately and with full awareness, especially in an affected way: "the self-consciousness of the opening scene devolves steadily into parody"
   • ▪ knowledge of one's own existence, especially the knowledge of oneself as a conscious being: "the political self-consciousness of the working class"

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