self-conscious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts
    self-aware.
    • self-conscious awareness
    • self-conscious about their roles as guardians of the social values"- D.M.Potter
  2. adjective satellite excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior
    • self-conscious teenagers
    • wondered if she could ever be untidy without feeling self-conscious about it

WordNet


Self`-con"scious adjective
Definitions
  1. Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self. "My self-conscious worth." Dryden.
  2. Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others; as, the speaker was too self-conscious.

Webster 1913