Word Study
awareness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun awareness has 2 senses
- awareness(n = noun.cognition) cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness - having knowledge of; "he had no awareness of his mistakes"; "his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"; "their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive" has particulars: self-awareness, feel, sense
- awareness(n = noun.cognition) sentience - state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness" is a kind of consciousness
is a kind of knowing
Derived forms adjective aware1, adjective aware2
Derived form adjective aware2
CIDE DICTIONARY
awareness, n.
- conscious knowledge; as, he had no awareness of his mistakes. [WordNet 1.5]
- a state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; as, the crash intruded on his awareness. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
awareness
advertence, advertency, alertness, apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness, assiduity, assiduousness, attention, attention span, attentiveness, care, cognition, cognizance, concentration, consciousness, consideration, diligence, ear, earnestness, experience, feeling, heed, heedfulness, insight, intentiveness, intentness, mindfulness, noesis, note, notice, observance, observation, percept, perception, realization, recognition, regard, regardfulness, remark, respect, response, response to stimuli, sensation, sense, sense impression, sense perception, sensibility, sensory experience, thought
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