Definitions for Awareness
Aware·ness

Princeton's WordNet(3.57 / 7 votes)Rate this definition:

1. awareness, consciousness, cognizance, cognisance, knowingnessnoun

   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"

2. awareness, sentiencenoun

   state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

   "the crash intruded on his awareness"

Wiktionary(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. awarenessnoun

   The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.

   I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness.

2. awarenessnoun

   The state or quality of being aware of something

   The awareness of one type of idea naturally fosters an awareness of another idea

Freebase(3.86 / 38 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Awareness

   Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects, or sensory patterns. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of something. In biological psychology, awareness is defined as a human's or an animal's perception and cognitive reaction to a condition or event.

U.S. National Library of Medicine(2.40 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Awareness

   The act of "taking account" of an object or state of affairs. It does not imply assessment of nor attention to the qualities or nature of the object.

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1. awareness

   Be intuitively aware.

   She has an awareness of what is required so she says just do it to the soul.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 16, 2020  

2. awareness

   To have knowledge of

   She did have an awareness of what was required so she just got on with it.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 16, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Consciousness
   • Knowing

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Awareness' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2807

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Awareness' in Nouns Frequency: #1225

How to pronounce Awareness?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Awareness in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Awareness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Awareness in a Sentence

1. Greta Thunberg:

   Me speaking to the U.N. is not going to change the situation but if that can help to create awareness ... then I think that together we can try to ... make a change.

2. Elizabeth Hagen:

   And 128,000 of them end up in the hospital, 30,000 of them will die from food borne illness each year in the United States. That's why this is worth talking about, raising awareness, and giving people the information they need to reduce the risk. Elizabeth Hagen listed three steps to keeping food safe : - Clean your hands, utensils and food surfaces before and after you cook - Separate raw meat and poultry from foods that wo n’t be cooked - Use a meat thermometer to cook to the proper temperature When you're eating outside the rule is two hours.

3. Rob Slater:

   I understand that we need to make space for the growing population coming to our cities but people need to realize we need natural areas in order to survive, whether it's aesthetic or not, natural areas provide ecosystem services that people don't actually see. Often it can feel a little bit like a losing battle. People do appreciate it but I think we need to create awareness and educate people that we need the environment to live.

4. Jennifer House:

   Awareness and precautions can help prevent the disease in people, while it's rare for people to contract plague, we want to make sure everyone knows the symptoms. The disease is treatable if caught early.

5. Margareta Wahlström:

   There is such an awareness now about how quickly risk is increasing.

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