self-consciousness
- n embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
- n self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you
- The study is the first to demonstrate that animals other than primates experience envy, which has long been considered an emotion that requires self-consciousness.
- And sometimes its self-consciousness is exasperating, as if Henry James unaccountably decided to write a crime novel.
- He's a mid-range James Bond, on whom a certain self-consciousness has been imposed.