Self-aware means understanding your own nature and effect on others. Remarkably self-aware, not very self-aware.
It is praise, and the people who claim it loudest usually have least of it. Being self-aware is different from being self-conscious, which is discomfort rather than understanding.
1adjectiveself-awareUnderstanding your own nature and effect on others.
“He was self-aware enough to know when to stop talking.”
self-aware is a quality.
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From self- + aware. self comes from Middle English self. From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European selbʰ- (“one's own”). 2
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