释义 |
self-ˈconsciousness [self- 1 d.] †1. The condition of being privy to a thing. Obs.
1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. App. ii. 5 Self-consciousness to the closest Villany. 2. Philos. Consciousness of one's own identity, one's acts, thoughts, etc.; = consciousness 4.
1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxvii. §16 Appropriated to me now by this self-consciousness. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 15 A distinct Animal, endued with self-consciousness and personal sensation of its own. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. 184 That, which in man is the subject or suppositum of self-consciousness, thinks, and has the foresaid faculties, must be something different from his body or carcass. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Lect. Metaph. xxix, Perception is the power by which we are made aware of the phænomena of the external world; Self-consciousness the power by which we apprehend the phænomena of the internal. 1874G. H. Lewes in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 689 Philosophy must be regarded in the light of a continuous history of Self-consciousness. 3. Internal knowledge or conviction of a thing; = consciousness 2.
1751Earl of Orrery Rem. Swift xiii. (ed. 5) 114 With only the self consciousness of deserving a rank among the companions of Brutus in the Elysian fields. 4. The condition of being self-conscious (sense 2).
1833J. S. Mill Let. 25 Nov. in Wks. (1963) XII. 195 A man singularly free, if we may trust appearances, from self-consciousness. 1851Kingsley Yeast ii, It sweeps away that infernal web of self-consciousness, and absorbs me in outward objects. 1876Farrar Days of thy Youth xxxvii. 373 If he is not free from the self-consciousness which is usually called being nervous. 1932G. Greene Stamboul Train i. i. 5 Her body..even while stumbling..retained its self-consciousness. |