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Self-awareness

Definition: Self-awareness

Self-awareness

Noun

1. Awareness of your own individuality.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "self-awareness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Crosswords: Self-awareness

English words defined with "self-awareness": alternative medicinecomplementary medicineself-consciousness. (references)
Specialty definitions using "self-awareness": Self Psychology. (references)

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Modern Usage: Self-awareness

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness. (Bull Durham; writing credit: Ron Shelton.)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Self-awareness

DomainTitle

Books

  • 20 Secrets to Money and Independence: A Guide to Independence, Economic Empowerment, and Self-Awareness (reference)

  • An Astrological Guide to Self-Awareness (reference)

  • Growing Good Kids: 28 Activities to Enhance Self-Awareness, Compassion, and Leadership (The Free Spirited Classroom) (reference)

  • Hard Won Wisdom: More Than 50 Extraordinary Women Mentor You to Find Self-Awareness, Perspective, and Balance (reference)

  • Home Design from the Inside Out: Feng Shui, Color Therapy, and Self-Awareness (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Self-awareness

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Common behavioral deficits include decreased ability to initiate responses, verbal and physical aggression, agitation, learning difficulties, shallow self-awareness, altered sexual functioning, impulsivity, and social disinhibition. (references)

Worker Rights

Mexico

The Chihuahua State Attorney General's Office runs a series of self-awareness programs to educate women about the many dangers confronting them in Ciudad Juarez. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Self-awareness

"Self-awareness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.80% of the time. "Self-awareness" is used about 49 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)89.8%4451,500
Adjective (general or positive)8.16%4175,879
Noun (common)2.04%1339,140
                    Total100.00%49N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Self-awareness

Language Translations for "self-awareness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

自我意识. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Feministische oefengroep op basis van radicale therapie , A'dam (based on certain advanced ideas of self-awareness). (various references)

   

German

  

selbstbewusstsein (ego, poise, self confidence, self consciousness, self-assurance, self-importance). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

öntudatosság (assertiveness, self consciousness, self-consciousness), öntudat (consciousness, senses). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elf-awarenesssay

   

Russian 

  

самоанализ (introspection, self-examination, the study of the self). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Self-awareness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-e-f-l-n-r-s-s-s-w"

-2 letters: awarenesses.

-3 letters: realnesses.

-4 letters: awareness, falseness, farnesses, fewnesses, newsreels, rawnesses, waenesses.

-5 letters: arsenals, fearless, fernless, flensers, freeness, fresnels, newsless, newsreel, realness, releases, renewals, safeness, seawares, selfness, welfares, wrassles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Self-awareness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6C 66 2D 61 77 61 72 65 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100001 01110111 01100001 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#108 &#102 &#45 &#97 &#119 &#97 &#114 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0061 0077 0061 0072 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5371787215678967847180718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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