"self-consciousness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From self- + consciousness. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|self|consciousness}} self- + consciousness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} self-consciousness (uncountable)
  1. The awareness of the self as an entity. Tags: uncountable Translations (awareness of the self as an entity): συναίσθησις (sunaísthēsis) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), самосъзнание (samosǎznanie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), minätietoisuus (Finnish), conscience de soi [feminine] (French), Selbstbewusstsein [neuter] (German), autocoscienza [feminine] (Italian), 自己意識 (jiko ishiki) (alt: じこいしき) (Japanese), самосвест (samosvest) [feminine] (Macedonian), samoświadomość [feminine] (Polish), самосозна́ние (samosoznánije) [neuter] (Russian), самоосмысле́ние (samoosmyslénije) [neuter] (Russian), autoconsciente (Spanish), självmedvetenhet (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-self-consciousness-en-noun-NFBP9eao Categories (other): English terms prefixed with self- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with self-: 91 9 Disambiguation of 'awareness of the self as an entity': 99 1
  2. Shyness; a feeling of unease in social situations. Tags: uncountable Translations (shyness): ujous (Finnish), arkuus (Finnish), timidité [feminine] (French), Befangenheit [feminine] (German), Gehemmtheit [feminine] (German), Verlegenheit [feminine] (German), impaccio [masculine] (Italian), 自己意識 (jiko ishiki) (alt: じこいしき) (Japanese), трема (trema) [feminine] (Macedonian), nieśmiałość [feminine] (Polish), zakłopotanie [neuter] (Polish), засте́нчивость (zasténčivostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), timidez [feminine] (Spanish), inseguridad [feminine] (Spanish), förlägenhet (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-self-consciousness-en-noun-0q9Bx47~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 63 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 20 80 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 29 71 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of 'shyness': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: shyness

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.