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self-awareness

American  
[self-uh-wair-nis] / ˌsɛlf əˈwɛər nɪs /

noun

  1. the state or quality of being self-aware.


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Is it self-awareness — the ability to recognize oneself as a distinct entity moving through time?

From Los Angeles Times

Looking ahead, the team believes that studying self-awareness across a wide range of animals, including invertebrates, will become increasingly important.

From Science Daily

It signaled a kind of self-awareness, an emotional confidence and a willingness to take social risks—qualities that matter far more for long-term collaboration than flawless self-presentation.

From The Wall Street Journal

During that era at least, Fischer said Lucas and Coppola seemed ”completely devoid of any self-awareness.”

From Los Angeles Times

And Salieri seems more of hybrid creature, as though a villain out of Christopher Marlowe had suddenly been endowed with Shakespearean self-awareness.

From Los Angeles Times