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self-consciousness
noun as in diffidence
noun as in egg on one's face
noun as in embarrassment
Strong matches
noun as in inhibition
Strong matches
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Beneath all this youthful self-consciousness, though, there are some great yarns.
I think it was more a matter of self-consciousness… I always saw writing about music as purely an avocation.
This reticence—this reserve—suits Beck's voice and personality much better than the confessional self-consciousness of Sea Change.
But as the concert continued, the colors of the stage became amplified and his feelings of self-consciousness slipped away.
Then, in the two decades prior to the Civil War, there occurred a momentous shift from free will to self-consciousness.
She felt sure that the significance of the whole occurrence had lain in her own self-consciousness.
Suitable literature with a matter-of-fact approach that may yet include the spiritual factor will remove self consciousness.
As far as any apparent self-consciousness was concerned, she might just as well have been all alone in the room.
I carry with me into the steerage just a bit of self-consciousness—there are so many trying to play upon me.
The self-consciousness shown would have been vanity if a little more pronounced, dignity if a little less.
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On this page you'll find 125 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to self-consciousness, such as: backwardness, bashfulness, constraint, doubt, fear, and hesitation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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