self-awareness

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ awareness. Also equivalent to self-aware +‎ -ness, though attested earlier.

Noun

self-awareness (uncountable)

1. The state or property of being self-aware; state of being aware of oneself as an individual.
2. (psychology) A personal trait regarding someone's ability to persistently and accurately perceive their presence amongst other people, and their own knowledge and abilities.

Antonyms

• self-unawareness

Holonyms

• See Thesaurus:sentient

Translations

state of being self-aware

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bashkir: үҙаң (üźañ)
• Catalan: autognòsia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自我意識／自我意识 (zh) (zìwǒ yìshi)

• Estonian: eneseteadvus
• Finnish: tietoisuus itsestä, itsetajunta
• French: conscience de soi (fr) f
• German: Selbstbewusstsein (de) n
• Hungarian: öntudat (hu), öntudatosság (hu)
• Irish: féinfheasacht f, féinfhios m
• Italian: autocoscienza f, autognosia f, autoconsapevolezza
• Japanese: 自己認識 (じこにんしき, jikoninshiki)
• Latvian: apzinātība (lv) f
• Macedonian: самосвест f (samosvest)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: selvoppfatning (no) m or f

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: samoświadomość (pl) f
• Portuguese: autoconsciência f, autoconhecimento (pt) m, autognose f
• Russian: самосозна́ние (ru) n (samosoznánije)
• Spanish: autognosis f, autoconsciencia f
• Swedish: självkännedom (sv) c, självförnimmelse c, självinsikt (sv) c
• Ukrainian: самосвідо́мість f (samosvidómistʹ)