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Definition: Self-awareness |
Self-awarenessNoun1. 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 medicine ♦ complementary medicine ♦ self-consciousness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "self-awareness": Self Psychology. (references) |
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Screenplays | The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness. (Bull Durham; writing credit: Ron Shelton.) | |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.8% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.16% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 2.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 49 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 самоанализ (introspection, self-examination, the study of the self). (various references) | ||||||||||
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. | |
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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)
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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)S e l f - a w a r e n e s s |
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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