self-awareness
Recognizing your motives
Self-awareness is consciousness of your own thoughts, feelings, and behavior—the capacity to observe yourself as others might.
Someone with self-awareness recognizes their strengths and weaknesses: She had enough self-awareness to know public speaking wasn't her gift.
The term often implies emotional maturity or social perceptiveness.
Lacking self-awareness suggests obliviousness to how you come across: He has zero self-awareness about how annoying he is.
Awareness of own reasoning
- sentienceCapacity for subjective experience
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- sapienceProfound intellectual discernment
- wakefulnessState of being conscious
alertness · perception · cognizance · lucidity · attentiveness · mindfulness · observance · apperception
Focused attention practice
- presenceState of being somewhere
- breathingPulmonary gas exchange
- zenMeditative calm
- centeringPositioning at midpoint
stillness · focus · grounding · acceptance · equanimity · nonjudgmental · composure · attention
Sudden profound insight
- realizationGrasping what's true
- clarityState of being understandable
- discernmentKeen perception and judgment
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
understanding · comprehension · wisdom · perspicacity · acumen · awakening · revelation · recognition
Who someone is
- psycheTotal mental life
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- humilityFreedom from arrogance
- personaAssumed public identity
Probing one's innermost feelings
- navel-gazingExcessive inward contemplation
- introspectivenessTendency to examine one's thoughts
metacognition
Awareness of own reasoning
- sentienceCapacity for subjective experience
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- sapienceProfound intellectual discernment
wakefulness · alertness · perception · cognizance · lucidity · attentiveness · mindfulness · observance · apperception
meditation
Focused attention practice
centering · stillness · focus · grounding · acceptance · equanimity · nonjudgmental · composure · attention · observation
epiphany
Sudden profound insight
- realizationGrasping what's true
- clarityState of being understandable
- discernmentKeen perception and judgment
enlightenment · understanding · comprehension · wisdom · perspicacity · acumen · awakening · revelation · recognition
identity
Who someone is
- psycheTotal mental life
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- humilityFreedom from arrogance
soul-searching
Probing one's innermost feelings
- navel-gazingExcessive inward contemplation
- introspectivenessTendency to examine one's thoughts
- selfpersonal identity, psyche, ego, introspection, character
- existentialismexistence, authenticity, existential angst, existential crisis, angst
- self-conceptpersonal identity, identity formation, persona, individuality
- self-growthintrospection, growth mindset, authenticity, values, beliefs
- spiritual selfspiritual identity, inner life, soul-searching, introspection, spiritual essence
- developmentgrowth, progress, advancement, expansion, improvement
self-awarenessobliviousness
Lack of awareness
unawareness · unconsciousness · self-deception · cluelessness · mindlessness
self-awarenessobliviousness
Lack of awareness
tone-deafness · cluelessness · tactlessness · insensitivity · shamelessness
self-awarenessdenial
Refusal to accept reality
naivety · self-deception · blind spot · self-delusion · repression
self, aware, selfish, awareness, oneself, selfless, selflessness, selflessly, selfhood