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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-awareness
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Steiner promotes greater self-awareness in her books.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A generation loses itself in an inner world of feeling and self-awareness, oblivious of outside forces.
▪ Between the two lies balanced self-awareness.
▪ But history is a vital element in national self-awareness.
▪ For most of us, however, positive thinking and self-awareness can be learned.
▪ Only liberal applications of self-awareness, preferably with some therapeutic detergent, will enable you to leave it at home.
▪ Second, the process of increasing self-awareness is itself an essential prerequisite for emotional health.
▪ This process can be painful and revealing but it leads to greater self-awareness - the first step to unambiguous communication.
▪ Which has the greater self-awareness, a fish or a four-month-old foetus?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
self-awareness

1876, from self- + awareness.

Wiktionary
self-awareness

n. The state or property of being self-aware.

WordNet
self-awareness

n. awareness of your own individuality

Wikipedia
Self-awareness

Self-awareness is the capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize oneself as an individual separate from the environment and other individuals. It is not to be confused with consciousness in the sense of qualia. While consciousness is a term given to being aware of one’s environment and body and lifestyle, self-awareness is the recognition of that awareness.

Usage examples of "self-awareness".

As if Feynman radio technology was allowing some higher strata of consciousness and self-awareness to operate here.

Are we to think that a being knowing itself must contain diversity, that self-knowledge can be affirmed only when some one phase of the self perceives other phases, and that therefore an absolutely simplex entity would be equally incapable of introversion and of self-awareness?

But this time their conquest was not by conversion, for the Archaics and Neandertals lacked the associative water minds, the camaraderie of the arts, the unity of group self-awareness.

That people would wish to associate with him not for the qualities of his face that is, for his self-awareness, character, and mind but simply because they perceived a social utility in being seen with someone who was temporarily the centre of attention, he found silly and perverse.

This one would suffocate her utterly, would drown out all light, every glimmer of self-awareness.

Mentoring is essentially social and draws primarily upon self-awareness as manifested in respecting others, understanding others, empathizing and synergizing with others.

But if it is designed for inductive logic, able to assess data, draw hypotheses therefrom, test them, reconstruct them to fit new data, make random comparisons of the results, and change those reconstructions-exercise judgment the way a flesh-and-blood does, then self-awareness may occur.

Dahak's present, fully-developed self-awareness was a product of fifty-one millennia of continuous, unsupervised operation.

There is no analysis, or self-awareness, or mental rigour going on at all, because obsessives are denied any kind of perspective on their own passion.

Self-regulatory perseveration and the depressive self-focusing style: A self-awareness theory of reactive depression.

As LNC, I am a Mark XXV, Model D, the first production model Bolo to be allowed complete, permanent self-awareness, and LNC's actions attack the very foundation of the decision which made us fully self-realized personalities.

Human self-awareness is a psycho-social phenomenon resulting from feedback in modeling the behavior of one's neighbors, and, almost coincidentally, modeling one's own behavior to make sure we'll fit into social activities.

Assuming that Omega Three is a representative sample of their computer technology, their computers had an even lower degree of self-awareness than that of Comp Cent prior to the mutiny.

It is time, to set aside, for the last time, the logic of the selfish gene, and to proclaim the triumph of altruistic self-awareness.

My God, he was blind, deaf, deprived of all tactile sensation and every metafaculty but self-awareness.