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unself-conscious

unself-conscious is the alternative spelling of unselfconscious.

Meaning of unselfconscious

Adjective

unselfconscious (comparative more unselfconscious, superlative most unselfconscious)

  1. Not self-conscious; natural and genuine.
    • After a minute's silence he spoke again in Tibetan, in a voice creaky with age but curiously vibrant with the unselfconscious habit of authority.
  2. Lacking a sense of self.
    • In fact, if the quotation be read over again with this interpretation (which I do not say Wordsworth intended) that the 'birth' spoken of is the birth or evolution of the distinctively self-conscious Man from the Animals and the animal-natured, unself-conscious human beings of a preceding age, then...1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 174

Forms of unself-conscious

comparativemore unself-conscious
superlativemost unself-conscious

Questions about unself-conscious

What is unself-conscious the alternative spelling of?
Unself-conscious is the alternative spelling of unselfconscious.

Words near unself-conscious in the dictionary

  1. unselectively
  2. unselectiveness
  3. unselectivity
  4. unselects
  5. unself
  6. unself-conscious
  7. unself-consciously
  8. unself-consciousness
  9. unselfaware
  10. unselfconscious
  11. unselfconsciously

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