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ˌsɛlf əˈwɛərself-aware

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. self-conscious, self-awareadjective

    aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts

    "self-conscious awareness"; "self-conscious about their roles as guardians of the social values"- D.M.Potter

Wiktionary

  1. self-awareadjective

    Aware of oneself as an individual that exists in the real world

    The robot didn't just resemble a human girl, she was self-aware and conscious as well.

Wikipedia

  1. self-aware

    In philosophy of self, self-awareness is the experience of one's own personality or individuality. It is not to be confused with consciousness in the sense of qualia. While consciousness is being aware of one's environment and body and lifestyle, self-awareness is the recognition of that awareness. Self-awareness is how an individual experiences and understands their own character, feelings, motives, and desires.

ChatGPT

  1. self-aware

    Self-aware refers to the understanding and recognition of one's own thoughts, emotions, beliefs, behaviors, strengths, and weaknesses. It means being conscious of one's character, feelings, motives, and desires. This self-knowledge includes an awareness of both positive and negative aspects of one's personality, and the ability to manage behaviors and reactions accordingly.

Editors Contribution

  1. self-aware

    For us as human beings to have and be aware of our patterns of actions, behavior, thoughts, feelings and values and realign these easily, effectively and efficiently at superluminal speed to the collective plan for the evolution of humanity and the universes truth when change is required to evolve.

    To be self-aware is a gift and we must always be nonjudgmental with others.


    Submitted by MaryC on August 27, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-aware in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-aware in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of self-aware in a Sentence

  1. Chetan Dube:

    The question we would ask is, ‘Does all infrastructure need to be managed by people? Or is the infrastructure capable of self-managing, self-governing and self-healing?’ my father used to have some power plants, and I would go there, and they would have almost nobody managing them, because almost all the processes of remediation were built in. The technological maturity curve that almost any industry goes through has a level of evolution. At some point, can the systems, the network and the servers become self-aware and self-governing? IPcenter was the product realization of adaptive learning systems that would be able to self-govern. That was our first big steppingstone toward cognitive technologies.

  2. Lisa Haisha:

    Every day we have a choice about whether we react or respond to life. The first step in that direction is becoming self-aware and aligning our conscious and subconscious minds, where our Imposters live. In short, it’s about becoming aware of our Imposters (negative thoughts in our heads).

  3. Marianne Ruggiero:

    It is perfectly acceptable to call it out in real time, name the elephant in the room, it makes the hiring manager feel that if you make a mistake you are self-aware enough to catch yourself and big enough to admit that you've made a mistake and will fix it. Wouldn't you want to hire a person who will handle mistakes that way ?

  4. Anthony Voulgarides:

    He was self-aware, mature beyond his years.

  5. Andy Duncan:

    The eccentricity I value is essentially benign, a harmless individualism that reflects a unique, cockeyed view of the world, and spices up what otherwise might be a mundane menu, these eccentrics tend to be self-aware and tongue in cheek. They're winking at us. Some eccentrics, moreover, are just visionaries ahead of their time, like the early advocates of such eccentric notions as animal welfare.


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