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self-con⋅scious

  [self-kon-shuhs, self-]
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–adjective
1. excessively aware of being observed by others.
2. conscious of oneself or one's own being.
Origin:
1670–80

Related forms:
self-con⋅scious⋅ly, adverb
self-con⋅scious⋅ness, noun
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self-con·scious   (sělf'kŏn'shəs)
adj.  

  1. Aware of oneself as an individual or of one's own being, actions, or thoughts.

  2. Socially ill at ease: The self-conscious teenager sat alone during lunch.

  3. Excessively conscious of one's appearance or manner: The self-conscious actor kept fixing his hair.

  4. Showing the effects of self-consciousness; stilted: self-conscious prose.

self'-con'scious·ly adv., self'-con'scious·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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