self-awareness
noun
self-aware·ness
ˌself-ə-ˈwer-nəs 
: an awareness of one's own personality or individuality
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Writers of autofiction have been accused of trying to preëmpt criticism by couching their work in self-awareness.
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Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
Plus, the movie’s self-awareness and blatant homage to Christie will be the cherry on top for Knives Out fans.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 15 Dec. 2025
In a restaurant town flooded with Frenchness, Chateau Royale offers a welcome sense of cheeky self-awareness, with a backward-looking menu that embraces all the Gallic pomp and dairy fat of an earlier age.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
But where the stalker remains self-deluded to the end, Jack’s self-righteousness is tinged with self-awareness.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
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Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
Plus, the movie’s self-awareness and blatant homage to Christie will be the cherry on top for Knives Out fans.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 15 Dec. 2025
In a restaurant town flooded with Frenchness, Chateau Royale offers a welcome sense of cheeky self-awareness, with a backward-looking menu that embraces all the Gallic pomp and dairy fat of an earlier age.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025
But where the stalker remains self-deluded to the end, Jack’s self-righteousness is tinged with self-awareness.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
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 27 Dec. 2025.
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