Our descendants will sooner or later reach, as a race, the condition of cosmic consciousness, just as, long ago, our ancestors passed from simple consciousness into self-consciousness.
Source: tatoeba (3467312)
Self-consciousness
//ˌsɛlfˈkɑnʃəsnəs//
Synonyms for "self-consciousness" (10 found)
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Noun(2 words)
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1 entriesderived
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32 translations across 13 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- συναίσθησις noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
Bulgarian
1 entries- самосъзнание noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
Finnish
3 entries- arkuus noun (shyness)
- minätietoisuus noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
- ujous noun (shyness)
French
2 entries- conscience de soi noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
- timidité noun (shyness)
German
4 entries- Befangenheit noun (shyness)
- Gehemmtheit noun (shyness)
- Selbstbewusstsein noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
- Verlegenheit noun (shyness)
Italian
2 entries- autocoscienza noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
- impaccio noun (shyness)
Japanese
2 entries- 自己意識 noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
- 自己意識 noun (shyness)
Macedonian
2 entries- самосвест noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
- трема noun (shyness)
Polish
3 entries- nieśmiałość noun (shyness)
- samoświadomość noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
- zakłopotanie noun (shyness)
Russian
3 entries- засте́нчивость noun (shyness)
- самоосмысле́ние noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
- самосозна́ние noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
Spanish
4 entries- autoconciencia noun (shyness)
- autoconsciencia noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
- cohibición noun (shyness)
- inseguridad noun (shyness)
Swedish
2 entries- förlägenhet noun (shyness)
- självmedvetenhet noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
Thai
2 entries- ความสำนึกตน noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
- อัตพิชาน noun (awareness of the self as an entity)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
I was early to breakfast. I felt a perfectly natural desire to have a good, long, unprejudiced look at the passengers at a time when they should be free from self-consciousness—which is at breakfast, when such a moment occurs in the lives of human beings at all.
Source: tatoeba (8372181)
A difficulty of arranging their lips in this crude exposure to public scrutiny, an inability to balance their heads, and to dissociate self-consciousness from their features, was apparent in them, and showed that they were genuine country girls, unaccustomed to many eyes.
Source: tatoeba (11459470)
[A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude in human thought and action.
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