awareness
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: aware‧ness
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)nəs
Noun
awareness (usually uncountable, plural awarenesses)
- The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.
- I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness.
- The state or quality of being aware of something.
- The awareness of one type of idea naturally fosters an awareness of another idea
- raise awareness of a topic
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 8:
- Like a mind moving on a Möbius strip of events, one's consciousness goes over the same territory again and again without ever becoming aware of the nature of awareness.
Synonyms
- (state of consciousness): consciousness, wakefulness
- (state of being aware of something): knowledge, consciousness
Derived terms
Translations
the state of consciousness
the state or quality of being aware of something
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