Unselfconscious
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Unselfconscious is an adjective meaning Not self-conscious; natural and genuine.
Meaning
Not self-conscious; natural and genuine.
More Meanings
- Lacking a sense of self.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
In the lighted houses of the Meisners, of the Schumperts and the Persons and the Roots, people were clearly at home—whole families grouped around tables, young heads bent over homework, dens aflicker with TV, toddlers careening, a grandparent testing a tea bag’s virtue with a third soaking. These were spirited, unselfconscious houses.
Synonyms for unselfconscious
Depending on context, synonyms include natural, unaffected.
Antonyms for unselfconscious
Common opposites include self-conscious.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unaffected, natural, unself-conscious, unpretending, unfeigning, unstaged.
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