self-consciousadj.

self-conscious (adj.)1680s, "aware of one\\'s action," a word of the English Enlightenment (Locke was using it by 1690), from self- + conscious. Morbid sense of "preoccupied with one\\'s own personality" is attested from 1834 (in J.S. Mill). Related: Self-consciously; self-consciousness.