self-consciousness
- IPA[ˌselfˈkänSHəsnəs]
美式
- undue awareness of oneself, one's appearance, or one's actions；the quality of being carried out deliberately and with full awareness, especially in an affected way
noun: self-consciousness
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. undue awareness of oneself, one's appearance, or one's actions people warm to her candor and lack of self-consciousness the awkward self-consciousness of adolescence
- 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 the self-consciousness of the exercise
- ▪ knowledge of one's own existence, especially the knowledge of oneself as a conscious being the political self-consciousness of the working class
