1.
Someone who is ~ is easily embarrassed and nervous because they feel that everyone is looking at them and judging them.
I felt a bit ~ in my swimming costume...
Bess was ~ about being shorter than her two friends.
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ about n
~ly
She was fiddling ~ly with her wedding ring.
ADV: ADV with v
~ness
...her painful ~ness.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you describe someone or something as ~, you mean that they are strongly aware of who or what they are. (FORMAL)
Putting the work together is a very ~ process.
ADJ
~ly
The world which the book inhabits seems too ~ly literary, too introverted...
ADV: ADV adj