self-awareness
Americannoun
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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.
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
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