self-aware
adjEtymology From self- + aware.
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Aware of oneself as an individual that exists in the real world.
- The robot didn't just resemble a human girl: she was self-aware and conscious as well.
- The time has come. According to the Terminator clock, at 8:11 p.m. Tuesday, Skynet will become self-aware. And humanity will be screwed.2011 April 19, Angela Watercutter, “Skynet Becomes Self-Aware: How to Welcome Our AI Overlords”, in Wired:
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Cognizant of one's appearances, shortcomings, etc.
- The video is a self-aware parody of the trend.
- Synonyms
- intelligent, sentient, self-aware, sapient
- Antonyms
- self-unaware
- Derived terms
- selfawarewolf
- Related terms
- self-awareness
- Meronyms
- sentient