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Recent Examples of self-consciousness
Jean’s mama, in a kente-print muumuu (as much out of self-consciousness about middle-aged weight gain, Jean figured, as in celebration of the day), hovered nearby, smiling on.
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David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
The people around me shouted with such purity of rage, such absence of self-consciousness.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 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 Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
The people around me shouted with such purity of rage, such absence of self-consciousness.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 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
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In fact, moving in your 30s or later has advantages, since people tend to arrive with more financial stability, better self-awareness, and the wisdom to navigate challenges with perspective.—
Cepee Tabibian,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
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Explore philosophies that bring you self-awareness and get you closer to the true meaning of your life.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
25 Sep. 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
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Like any literary work, the individual critical voice finds its echoes in the world at large, in readers’ self-recognition, in a sense of community.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
24 July 2025
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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
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The film follows a [young man] navigating life on the fringes of society in coastal Britain, balancing harsh realism with poetic introspection.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
24 Sep. 2025
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That level of introspection can, at times, conflict with an industry more concerned with packaging and selling, and that tension has informed the way UMI moved inside and outside of the label system for the past decade.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
23 Sep. 2025
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That spirit manages to survive a patently modern star turn from Mark Wahlberg, whose incapacity for nuance and self-reflection is well-served by a role that has little interest in either.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
30 Sep. 2025
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This album juxtaposes moments of self-reflection with themes of emotional empowerment, chronicling her journey toward healing and the pursuit of new experiences.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
26 Sep. 2025
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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
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Maybe the symptoms of his cognitive decline are inextricable from what seemed to you to be his general self-absorption and thoughtlessness.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Frost’s well is a modern version of Narcissus’ pool, and his poem is a meditation on self-absorption and its limits.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Self-consciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-consciousness. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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