alone vs self-conscious

alone

adj
  • By oneself, solitary. 

  • Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc. 

adv
  • Not requiring anything further; merely. 

  • By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo. 

  • Without outside help. 

  • Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset. 

  • Not permitting anything further; exclusively. 

self-conscious

adj
  • Aware of oneself as an individual being. 

  • Uncomfortably over-conscious of one's appearance or behaviour; socially ill at ease. 

  • Excessively conscious of one's appearance or behaviour. 

How often have the words alone and self-conscious occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )