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self conscious

[self-kon-shuhs, self-] Origin

self-con·scious

[self-kon-shuhs, self-]
adjective
1.
excessively aware of being observed by others.
2.
conscious of oneself or one's own being.

Origin:
1670–80

self-con·scious·ly, adverb
self-con·scious·ness, noun
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Word Origin & History

self-conscious
1688, "aware of one's action," a word of the Eng. Enlightenment (Locke was using it by 1690), from self + conscious (q.v.). Morbid sense of "preoccupied with one's own personality" is attested from 1834 (in J.S. Mill).
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