Self-consciousness

Definitions: Self-consciousness

Self-consciousness

Noun

1. Embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you.

2. Self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you.

Commercial Usage: Self-consciousness

Domain	Title
Books	The Fetishism of Modernities: Epochal Self-Consciousness in Contemporary Social and Political Thought (Frank M. Covey, Jr., Loyola Lectures in Politi (reference) Hegel's Idealism : The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness (reference) When Self-Consciousness Breaks: Alien Voices and Inserted Thoughts (reference) Depression: Self-Consciousness, Pretending, and Guilt (reference) Sophistication: Rhetoric and the Rise of Self-Consciousness (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Self-consciousness

"Self-consciousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Self-consciousness" is used about 91 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)

Modern Translations: Self-consciousness

Language		Translations for "self-consciousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		害羞 (shy). (various references)

Hungarian		zavar (abashment, annoy, awkwardness, bafflement, bewilderment, bother, confusion, difficulties, discomfiture, discomposure, disorder, disorientation, disturb, disturbance, embarrassment, fermentation, harass, hitch, interfere, jam, mess-up, nonplus, perplexity, perturbation, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, shuffling, snarl, to discommode, to disturb, to fluster, to get into sy's hair, to get under one's skin, to incommode, to inconvenience, to put to it), pózolás (pose, posturing), nagyképűség (bumptiousness, pomposity, pompousness), kényszeredettség, feszélyezettség (constraint, cramp, discomfort), elfogultság (bias, lopsidedness, partiality, prejudice, prepossession), elfogódottság, affektálás (affectation, frills), öntudatosság (assertiveness, self consciousness, self-awareness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		自意識 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		じいしき. (various references)

Korean		자의식. (various references)

Manx		nearey (confusedness, disgrace, embarrassment, ignominy, mortification, mortified, opprobrium, shame, shamefulness). (various references)

Pig Latin		elf-consciousnesssay

Vietnamese		sự e thẹn, sự có ý thức về bản thân mình, sự có ý thức về bản ngã sự ngượng ngùng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Self-consciousness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-f-i-l-n-n-o-o-s-s-s-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: consciousnesses.
	-4 letters: consciousness, feloniousness.
	-5 letters: nonsuccesses, sinfulnesses.
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Alternative Orthography: Self-consciousness

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

53 65 6C 66 2D 63 6F 6E 73 63 69 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73

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

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

01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01100011 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#108 &#102 &#45 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#115 &#99 &#105 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0063 006F 006E 0073 0063 0069 006F 0075 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073

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

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.31%	84	36,109
Adjective (general or positive)	7.69%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	91	N/A

Self-consciousness

Definitions: Self-consciousness