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self-ˈconscious, a.
[self- 1 e.]
1. a. Philos. Having consciousness of one's identity, one's actions, sensations, etc.; reflectively aware of one's actions. Also said of action, thought, etc.
a1688Cudworth Treatise of Freewill (1838) 71 We are certain by inward sense that we can reflect upon our⁓selves and consider ourselves, which is a reduplication of life in a higher degree; for all cogitative beings as such are self-conscious. [1690, etc.: cf. self-consciousness 2.] 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 97 An infinite yet self-conscious Creator. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. i. (1888) 4 So far as human action is self-conscious as well as voluntary. 1907Illingworth Doctr. Trin. vii. 136 A person is..essentially a self-conscious subject.
†b. Of which one is conscious in oneself. Obs.
1697Dryden æneid viii. 174 My self-conscious Worth. 1824Bentham Bk. Fallacies i. i. §2 Wks. 1843 II. 392 Self-conscious and self-avowed imbecility.
2. Marked by undue or morbid pre-occupation with one's own personality; so far self-centred as to suppose one is the object of observation by others.
1834J. S. Mill Let. 12 Jan. in Wks. (1963) XII. 208, I begin to think that instead of being, as I once thought I was, the most self-conscious person living, I am much less self-conscious now..than almost anybody. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. vii, Self-conscious, conscious of a world looking on. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxiv, Their..innocence so self-conscious and self-satisfied. 1882J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool xxxix, He was singularly free from self-consciousness; and she was so exquisitely self-conscious as completely to conceal it. 1937‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xiii. 255 Self-conscious Socialists dutifully addressing one another as ‘Comrade’. 1974J. Irving 158-Pound Marriage ii. 42 She had never been self-conscious about what she wore.
Hence self-ˈconsciously adv.
a1834Coleridge Shaks. Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 68 A genial understanding directing self-consciously a power and an implicit wisdom deeper even than our consciousness. |