self-conscious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: self-con=scious

CIDE DICTIONARY

self-conscious, a. 

•  Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
•  Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others; as, the speaker was too self-conscious.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

self-conscious, adj.
1 socially inept through embarrassment or shyness.
2 Philos. having knowledge of one's own existence; self-contemplating.

Derivative

self-consciously adv. self-consciousness n.

THESAURUS

self-conscious

affected, anxious, apprehensive, artificial, awkward, bashful, confused, conscious, coy, demure, diffident, embarrassed, exhibitionist, formal, hesitant, ill at ease, inarticulate, insecure, mannered, modest, mousy, nervous, ostentatious, prim, reserved, retiring, self-effacing, shamefaced, shamefast, sheepish, shrinking, shy, skittish, stammering, stiff, stilted, timid, timorous, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsure

ROGET THESAURUS

self-conscious

Affectation

N affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan, affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental, conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.