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self-consciousness /sɛlfˈkɒn(t)ʃəsnəs /noun [mass noun]1Undue awareness of oneself, one’s appearance, or one’s actions: people warm to her candour and lack of self-consciousness the awkward self-consciousness of adolescence...- With the onset of adolescence, we see a lot of painful self-consciousness, along with attempts to appear more adult, whatever that may mean.
- Movies about children always run the risk of cuteness, because kids often play to the camera with little self-consciousness.
- Restyled in her rock chic gear, her initial self-consciousness gives way to abandon on the dance floor.
2The 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...- The movie curdles on its own self-consciousness, giving a bad name to kitsch.
- His aesthetic and educational style borrowed the confident clarity of Walker Evans's photography and the baroque self-consciousness of James Agee's writing.
- Primarily a portrait of suburban teenage angst, it feels entirely contemporary, yet it avoids the smarmy self-consciousness of most horror films.
2.1 Philosophy & Psychology Knowledge of one’s own existence, especially the knowledge of oneself as a conscious being: the political self-consciousness of the working class...- It's as if he were untouched by postcolonial self-consciousness—or any other theoretical concerns, for that matter.
- When it became a grand duchy of the tsarist empire, the first seeds of national self-consciousness were sown.
- I think it would be better characterized as a necessary step towards creating a kind of cultural awareness and self-consciousness.
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