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unselfconscious

[ uhn-self-kon-shuhs ]

adjective

  1. not self-conscious; without affectation or pretense:

    an unselfconscious manner.



unselfconscious

/ ˌʌnsɛlfˈkɒnʃəs /

adjective

  1. not unduly aware of oneself as the object of attention of others


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Other Words From

  • unself·conscious·ly adverb
  • unself·conscious·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of unselfconscious1

First recorded in 1830–40; un- 1 + self-conscious

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Example Sentences

Audience members could ask earnest, unselfconscious questions like whether e-books were real books without blushing.

Reading Jim Harrison can help you be a better animal, balancing the examined life with unselfconscious enthusiasm for living.

Although she preserved her delightfully unselfconscious manner she was almost ceaselessly conscious of self.

He was absolutely unselfconscious, and it never seemed to occur to him to wonder what impression he was making on others.

He had had a harder life than Tembarom because he had been more timid and less buoyant and less unselfconscious.

She was almost as unselfconscious as he, but had her nation's shrinking from any public expression of emotion.

Now, John Blanchemain, as I have previously mentioned, was an unselfconscious sort of fellow.

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