: characterized by self-awareness

Examples of self-aware in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There’s a different, far more self-aware energy that’s taken over Pakistani music with the young blood. Sonya Rehman, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024 That began to change by the ‘60s, as familiarity with vampires allowed for meta, self-aware playing with the genre. James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024 This work of ecologically minded art is positioned as just one self-aware fragment of a much bigger worldview that needs to be seen as holistic and systemic. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024 Hinton is careful to say in public statements that AI is not self-aware, as humans are. Paolo Confino, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for self-aware 

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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 30 Oct. 2024.

Medical Definition

self-aware

adjective
: characterized by self-awareness
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