: characterized by self-awareness

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The 10-episode, summer 2025 series comes with a completely self-aware title: WWE: Unreal. Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2025 This team has become the embodiment of NBA culture in 2024: funny, self-aware, and unapologetically themselves. Sindiswa Mabunda, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025 If Denise is willing to keep leaning into the self-aware desperation that made Kathy Griffin’s show must-watch TV, I’ll be seated. Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025 Candidates who are self-aware, motivated, creative and passionate about the organization’s mission will outcompete AI any day of the week. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for self-aware

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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 29 Apr. 2025.

Medical Definition

self-aware

adjective
: characterized by self-awareness
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