Definition

1. 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

1. 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