unselfconscious.

Not awkwardly preoccupied with how one appears to others, or behaving without conspicuous self-monitoring.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• unselfconscious manner
• unselfconscious ease

On the page

Her unselfconscious manner made the unfamiliar gathering easier to enter.

The scene’s unselfconscious ease contrasted with the narrator’s later attempts to explain every gesture.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Comparative more unselfconscious; superlative most unselfconscious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: style analysis, interpretation, characterization, rhetorical contrast. Disciplines: literary analysis, prose writing, advanced general English. Commonness: uncommon.