: characterized by self-awareness

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Maybe the pace is just too fast; maybe the endless references and self-aware irony are too nimble for my middle-aged brain. Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2025 But Good Girl is also stuffed with tropes of a certain kind of millennial novel: A disaffected but self-aware young woman yearns to become an artist. Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025 But Glaser, a self-aware veteran of clubs, podcasts and late-night talk shows, is highly alert not just to the room but also to her place in it. Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025 By the standards of our post-Deadpool era, this minor bit of self-aware humor is nothing radical. Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for self-aware 

Word History

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of self-aware was in 1924

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“Self-aware.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-aware. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.

Medical Definition

self-aware

adjective
: characterized by self-awareness
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