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unselfconscious

unselfconscious adjective: not self-conscious; natural and genuine.

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.
    • The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous.1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  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

Examples of unselfconscious in a sentence

  • These were spirited, unselfconscious houses.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
  • Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please...

Antonyms of unselfconscious

Forms of unselfconscious

comparativemore unselfconscious
superlativemost unselfconscious

Origin of unselfconscious

From un- + selfconscious.

Words formed from unselfconscious

Questions about unselfconscious

What does unselfconscious mean?
Unselfconscious means not self-conscious; natural and genuine.
How do you use unselfconscious in a sentence?
These were spirited, unselfconscious houses.
What part of speech is unselfconscious?
Unselfconscious is an adjective.

Words near unselfconscious in the dictionary

  1. unself
  2. unself-conscious
  3. unself-consciously
  4. unself-consciousness
  5. unselfaware
  6. unselfconscious
  7. unselfconsciously
  8. unselfconsciousness
  9. unselfed
  10. unselfing
  11. unselfish

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