self-consciousness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being self-conscious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

shyness reluctance inhibition embarrassment humility hesitation modesty timidity nervousness reticence fearfulness humbleness uncertainty unease self-restraint
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Antonyms

confidence courage assurance arrogance self-esteem boldness
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Hypernyms

embarrassment self-awareness

Examples

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. Helen Hayes

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. Aaron Copland

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an Idea began to play in divine self-consciousness. Sri Aurobindo

Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. Andre Dubus

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness. Bruno Bauer

The most valuable stage of wisdom is the stage of self-consciousness. Ali al-Rida

Close letter words and terms

self-conjugate self-conscious self-consciously self-consequence self-consideration self-considerative