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Recent Examples of self-consciousness
Lawrence is liberated from anything resembling propriety or self-consciousness here.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Everything is without self-consciousness, and adapts and adapts, and just is.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
At the same time, invisibility has come as a relief, insofar as my vanity always kept company with self-consciousness and self-flagellation.
—Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
This kind of self-consciousness has become more common in literature today.
—Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Additionally, the skin rashes that often accompany this disease can lead to feelings of embarrassment and self-consciousness.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 27 Aug. 2025
In a society where a bright, full smile is synonymous with youth, health, and attractiveness, changes to oral appearance can trigger significant anxiety and self-consciousness.
—Pooja Shah, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Everything is without self-consciousness, and adapts and adapts, and just is.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
At the same time, invisibility has come as a relief, insofar as my vanity always kept company with self-consciousness and self-flagellation.
—Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
This kind of self-consciousness has become more common in literature today.
—Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Additionally, the skin rashes that often accompany this disease can lead to feelings of embarrassment and self-consciousness.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 27 Aug. 2025
In a society where a bright, full smile is synonymous with youth, health, and attractiveness, changes to oral appearance can trigger significant anxiety and self-consciousness.
—Pooja Shah, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-consciousness
- self-awareness
- self-recognition
- self-analysis
- introspection
- self-reflection
- self-observation
- self-absorption
Noun
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An unexpected reroute in plans reminds you that growth sometimes means relearning the same lesson, just with more self-awareness this time.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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That, in and of itself, is actually pretty good self-awareness.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
7 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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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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Scene by scene, Reichardt reminds of the world J.B., in his self-absorption, has been hiding out from.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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That blindness, that self-absorption, has become your legacy.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Self-consciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-consciousness. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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