self-awareness
noun
self-aware·ness
ˌself-ə-ˈwer-nəs 
: an awareness of one's own personality or individuality
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The Scream series emerged during the age of the New Irony, survived the ensuing New Sincerity, and made it through several other civilizational cycles of earnestness and self-awareness before landing here in today’s era of Nothing Matters and Everything Sucks.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
Once the series’ calling card, self-awareness has here been dulled into self-soothing.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Feb. 2026
That bareness speaks to Robyn’s own self-awareness, neither for better nor for worse.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 25 Feb. 2026
Generally, though, when humility is understood as grounded self-awareness rather than self-erasure, it’s viewed as something worth cultivating and practicing.
—Barret Michalec, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
Once the series’ calling card, self-awareness has here been dulled into self-soothing.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Feb. 2026
That bareness speaks to Robyn’s own self-awareness, neither for better nor for worse.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 25 Feb. 2026
Generally, though, when humility is understood as grounded self-awareness rather than self-erasure, it’s viewed as something worth cultivating and practicing.
—Barret Michalec, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for self-awareness
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“Self-awareness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-awareness. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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