How to spell self-aware

hear it/sɛlf_ə'wɜr/adjectivePrefixes and work

What it means: Having knowledge of your own thoughts and feelings.

In a sentence: The little robot learned to be self-aware and understand its own feelings.

Same family: awareness, self-awareness, unaware, self-conscious, introspective. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "self-aware" combines "self," from Old English "self" meaning "one's own person," with "aware," which comes from Old English "gewær," meaning "wary" or "cautious." The modern psychological sense of carefully noticing your own thoughts and feelings became especially popular in the 20th century with the growth of psychology and self-help movements.

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