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self-conscious wordnet sense
Adjective
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Feeling undue awareness of oneself, one's appearance, or one's actions,
  1. Feeling undue awareness of oneself, one's appearance, or one's actions
    • - I feel a bit self-conscious parking my scruffy old car
    • - a self-conscious laugh
  2. Having knowledge of one's own existence, esp. the knowledge of oneself as a conscious being

  3. (esp. of an action or intention) Deliberate and with full awareness, esp. affectedly so
    • - her self-conscious identification with the upper classes