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self-awareness

self-awareness

15 4.2
To know your own character, feelings, and reasons
  • noun
  • /ˌsɛlf əˈwɛrnəs/
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  • Part of the educational day would be spent in teaching self-awareness, self-discipline, and self-control.
  • develop self-awareness
  • increase self-awareness
  • foster self-awareness

Self honesty and self-awareness are two huge ones.

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Examples

  • Through therapy, she gained a deeper self-awareness about her feelings and how they affect her decisions.

  • A jazz musician must possess a certain degree of self-awareness in order to successfully improvise a solo.

    Academic text (2012)
  • But now that you have that incredible self-awareness, I would include that in the letter.

  • Every decision you make, I mean, you either develop self-awareness or these things control you.

  • I have tried to bring self-awareness to this.

  • Number two, once you establish that self-awareness, you must speak.

  • So the lack of self-awareness here is profound.

  • Can provide you the insight and self-awareness that you really deserve.

  • And that's why the most important thing is to develop self-awareness.

  • Eighty-seven percent reported that they gained insight and enhanced self-awareness in their role as nurses through the experience.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

self-knowledge
vsself-awareness
4 4.4

To be aware of your character, feelings, reasons, and abilities

highlights uniqueness of personal character and identity rather than abilities

How Self-Aware

self-awareness
15 4.2
insight
493 4.9
awareness
336 3.2

Surface Forms

self-awareness singular

Morphology

self-awareness = self-aware (transparent) = self + aware + ness

Formed by adding the productive nominalizer '-ness' to the transparent adjective 'self-aware' (self + aware), yielding 'awareness of oneself'.

Etymology

Self-awareness comes from self- meaning 'oneself' and aware meaning 'watchful' or 'knowing', with -ness turning the idea into a thing. So, self-awareness is being 'watchful' about your own feelings, thoughts, and character.