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SELF-AWARENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-awareness mean?
• SELF-AWARENESS (noun)
The noun SELF-AWARENESS has 1 sense:
1. awareness of your own individuality
Familiarity information: SELF-AWARENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Awareness of your own individuality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("self-awareness" is a kind of...):
awareness; cognisance; cognizance; consciousness; knowingness (having knowledge of)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-awareness"):
orientation (a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships)
self-consciousness (self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you)
Derivation:
self-aware (aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts)
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