SELF-CONSCIOUS


Meaning of SELF-CONSCIOUS in English

1.

Someone who is self-conscious is easily embarrassed and nervous because they feel that everyone is looking at them and judging them.

I felt a bit self-conscious in my swimming costume...

Bess was self-conscious about being shorter than her two friends.

ADJ : usu v-link ADJ , oft ADJ about n

• self-consciously

She was fiddling self-consciously with her wedding ring.

ADV : ADV with v

• self-consciousness

...her painful self-consciousness.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

If you describe someone or something as self-conscious , you mean that they are strongly aware of who or what they are. ( FORMAL )

Putting the work together is a very self-conscious process.

ADJ

• self-consciously

The world which the book inhabits seems too self-consciously literary, too introverted...

ADV : ADV adj

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