The habitual tendency to engage in self-awareness.

Reflex consciousness, by means of which the Ego apprehends itself concretely in its own mental acts and states; self-awareness.

A state of heightened self-awareness; the disposition to be self-attentive.

Self-consciousness is an acute sense of self-awareness. It is a preoccupation with oneself, rather than the philosophical state of self-awareness, which is the awareness that one exists as an individual being. An unpleasant feeling of self-consciousness occurs when we realize that we are being watched or observed, the feeling that "everyone is looking" at us.