self-conscious

/ˌself-ˈkän(t)-shəs/

adjective

  1. conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself : aware of oneself as an individual

  2. intensely aware of oneself : conscious; also : produced or done with such awareness

  3. uncomfortably conscious of oneself as an object of the observation of others : ill at ease

a rising and self-conscious social class