Usually means: Aware of oneself, often anxiously.
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  1. self-conscious: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-conscious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-conscious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-conscious, self-conscious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-conscious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Self-conscious, self-conscious: Wordnik
  7. self-conscious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. self-conscious: Wiktionary
  9. self-conscious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. self-conscious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. self-conscious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. self-conscious: Dictionary.com
  13. self-conscious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. self-conscious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Self-conscious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Self-conscious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. self-conscious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. self-conscious: Rhymezone
  19. self-conscious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. self-conscious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. self-conscious: FreeDictionary.org
  22. self-conscious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. self-conscious: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. self-conscious: Legal dictionary

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  1. self-conscious: Encyclopedia

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  1. self-conscious: Medical dictionary

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  1. self-conscious: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Aware of oneself as an individual being.
▸ adjective:  Excessively conscious of one's appearance or behaviour.
▸ adjective:  Uncomfortably over-conscious of one's appearance or behaviour; socially ill at ease.

Similar:
conscious, uncomfortable, self-aware, self-knowing, self-luminous, introspective, scious, metaconscious, sentient, concious, more...

Opposite:
confident, assured, self-assured, self-confident

Types:
shy, introverted, nervous, anxious, guarded, reserved, timid, more...

Phrases:
Self-conscious emotions, more...

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    pale pink,     blush,     lavender,     muted blue,     dusty rose, more...
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Similar:
conscious, uncomfortable, self-aware, self-knowing, self-luminous, introspective, scious, metaconscious, sentient, concious, more...

Opposite:
confident, assured, self-assured, self-confident

Types:
shy, introverted, nervous, anxious, guarded, reserved, timid, more...

Phrases:
Self-conscious emotions, more...

Colors:
    pale pink,     blush,     lavender,     muted blue,     dusty rose, more...



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