self-aware
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Conscious of one's own character, feelings, motives, and desires: Having a clear perception and understanding of oneself, including one's strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, and emotions.
- Marked by self-awareness: Exhibiting or characterized by this understanding of oneself.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- Through meditation, she became more self-aware and better at managing her emotions.
- A good leader is often highly self-aware, understanding how their behavior affects the team.
- His self-aware humor showed he didn't take himself too seriously.
Advanced Usage
- "To be self-aware": The most common construction to describe the state of possessing self-awareness.
- The training program is designed to help managers become more self-aware.
- "Self-aware of": Used to specify the particular aspect of oneself one is conscious of.
- He is keenly self-aware of his tendency to interrupt people.
Variants and Related Words
- Self-awareness (n): The quality or state of being self-aware.
- Emotional intelligence includes a high degree of self-awareness.
- Self-conscious (adj): While sometimes used synonymously, this often implies an excessive or uncomfortable awareness of oneself, especially in the presence of others. (See reference context: "self-conscious about their roles...").
Synonyms
- Introspective: Characterized by examination of one's own thoughts and feelings.
- Cognizant (of oneself): Aware or mindful of one's own state.
- Mindful: Conscious or aware of something, including one's own being.
Antonyms
- Oblivious: Not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one or within oneself.
- Unselfconscious: Natural and without artificiality or awkwardness; not self-aware.
Adjective
- aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts
- self-conscious awareness
- self-conscious about their roles as guardians of the social values- D.M.Potter