as in self-consciousness
knowledge and awareness of your own personality or character
Her self-awareness was unusual in such a young child.
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Recent Examples of self-awareness
Mars handed you the blueprint, but Venus wants to show you how to move with grace, magnetism, and self-awareness.
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Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 2 Nov. 2025
Anthropic cautions that while intriguing, these findings do not imply human-like self-awareness but could help advance future work on model transparency and interpretability.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Miles’ journey to Fort Worth is one of patience, self-awareness and the relentless recruiting approach of head coach Mark Campbell.
—Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2025
When my job involves asking players and coaches about an inadequate performance on some nights, there’s something to be said for being willing to do so with a little self-awareness and humility.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
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Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 2 Nov. 2025
Anthropic cautions that while intriguing, these findings do not imply human-like self-awareness but could help advance future work on model transparency and interpretability.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Miles’ journey to Fort Worth is one of patience, self-awareness and the relentless recruiting approach of head coach Mark Campbell.
—Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2025
When my job involves asking players and coaches about an inadequate performance on some nights, there’s something to be said for being willing to do so with a little self-awareness and humility.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-awareness
- self-consciousness
- self-recognition
- self-analysis
- introspection
- self-reflection
- self-examination
- self-observation
- soul-searching
Noun
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Lawrence is liberated from anything resembling propriety or self-consciousness here.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Nov. 2025
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Everything is without self-consciousness, and adapts and adapts, and just is.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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At the heart of every acting career lies a paradox: the ambition is for self-recognition; the art is of self-disappearance.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Whether or not dogs have awareness of themselves as an individual and any sort of mirror self-recognition is still up for debate.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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With a mind engaged in varied tasks, the time dedicated to art becomes sharper, less prone to the debilitating self-analysis that can derail artistic momentum.—
Kice Akkawi,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2025
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Mills, a longtime associate of Fiona Apple, knows this territory well: the pointed self-analysis of an extremely sensitive person.—
Jenn Pelly,
Time,
7 June 2025
Noun
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Not because this 2-2 draw at Sunderland provides cause for significant introspection.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Flora remembered his high school experience with a mix of introspection and relief.—
Evan Moore
November 7,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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With words infallibly falling short, Pritam mingled realism with a fragmentary style of narration that meshes together social encounters, violent episodes, vivid metaphors, disturbing dreams, memories, intimate self-reflections, and introspection on society.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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The book’s journey through the brain ends at the frontal pole, a region involved in self-reflection — thinking about thinking.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
18 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Mother’s turbulent self-examination is incited by the revelation of Sister Agnieszka’s pregnancy in the film’s first Act.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
27 Aug. 2025
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This disciplined self-examination is the foundation for refining skills and advancing toward mastery.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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There are three invitations leaders can offer their direct reports: Play with the technology as a tool for self-observation.—
Michael Hudson,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Anyone who has tracked their daily steps or worn a glucose monitor can testify that self-observation works.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes,
7 Oct. 2024
Noun
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The scale of the Republican Party's triumph in 2024—taking the White House, flipping the Senate and maintaining control of the House—has sparked soul-searching within the Democratic Party over what went wrong, how to rebuild, and party leadership and direction.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Democratic soul-searching will continue in the midterm primaries for House and Senate seats, and into the 2028 presidential primary, as the party looks for new leaders who can win.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Self-awareness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-awareness. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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