Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Aware of oneself, including one's traits, feelings, and behaviors.
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- adjective Aware of
oneself as anindividual thatexists in the real world
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- adjective aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts
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Examples
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Well, the term "self-aware" is very touchy and controversial, but that's the direction we are heading.
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I’ve never met anyone I’d classify as self-aware: It’s been my experience that most extroverted people think they’re introverts, and many introverted people make a similarly wrongheaded juxtaposition about being extroverts.
Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society Chuck Klosterman 2009
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I’ve never met anyone I’d classify as self-aware: It’s been my experience that most extroverted people think they’re introverts, and many introverted people make a similarly wrongheaded juxtaposition about being extroverts.
Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society Chuck Klosterman 2009
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I’ve never met anyone I’d classify as self-aware: It’s been my experience that most extroverted people think they’re introverts, and many introverted people make a similarly wrongheaded juxtaposition about being extroverts.
Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society Chuck Klosterman 2009
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I’ve never met anyone I’d classify as self-aware: It’s been my experience that most extroverted people think they’re introverts, and many introverted people make a similarly wrongheaded juxtaposition about being extroverts.
Billy Sim Chuck Klosterman 2004
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I’ve never met anyone I’d classify as self-aware: It’s been my experience that most extroverted people think they’re introverts, and many introverted people make a similarly wrongheaded juxtaposition about being extroverts.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003
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I’ve never met anyone I’d classify as self-aware: It’s been my experience that most extroverted people think they’re introverts, and many introverted people make a similarly wrongheaded juxtaposition about being extroverts.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003
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I’ve never met anyone I’d classify as self-aware: It’s been my experience that most extroverted people think they’re introverts, and many introverted people make a similarly wrongheaded juxtaposition about being extroverts.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003
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Her writing is searingly honest, brutally revealing, and wickedly self-aware.
Boing Boing 2009
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You know how the movie "The Secret" and these new-age spiritual blogs are always telling you to manifest by writing down an actual list of the qualities you're looking for in a mate: good looking, intelligent, successful in career, funny, warm-hearted, self-aware, an adventurer, etc.?
MeiMei Fox: The Life Out Loud: Be Your Own Valentine MeiMei Fox 2012
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