self consciousness
/ˌsɛlfˈkɑnʃəsnəs/
noun
- The feeling of being nervous or embarrassed because you think others are watching or judging you.
- Many teenagers experience self-consciousness about their changing bodies.
- His self-consciousness made it hard for him to speak in public.
- She overcame her self-consciousness by focusing on the task instead of the audience.
- The quality of being done in a deliberate, forced way that shows awareness of how others will see it.
- The self-consciousness of the poem's style made it feel less genuine.
- The movie's self-consciousness about its own message weakened its impact.
- There was a certain self-consciousness in the way he dressed for the party.
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