Definitions for awareness
aware·ness

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

1. awareness, consciousness, cognizance, cognisance, knowingness(noun)

   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, sentience(noun)

   state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

   "the crash intruded on his awareness"

Wiktionary(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. awareness(Noun)

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

   I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness.

2. awareness(Noun)

   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  

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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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. James Grover Thurber:

   Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

2. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   Rap beat: Tam dom, Tam dom Tu Tudutuk Tam dom, Tam dom The hardcore black humor of reality tears the psyche of mad laughter, billions of ridiculous laughter everywhere, seeing through everywhere. The power of awareness increases with laughter. Reason bursts at the seams with laughter, a new person is born. Evolution through the laughter of awareness. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

3. Nazma Khan:

   Our goal is to foster global religious tolerance and understanding through hijab awareness. Many women get discriminated (against) simply because they choose to wear the hijab, hopefully, this event will make people realize that women who wear the hijab are just like anyone else. They're not oppressed or are forced to wear it. They just simply want to follow their faith by being modest, just like Mary (mother of Jesus).

4. Seth Winter:

   It sounds a little bit distorted or perverse, whatever the appropriate word is, but it just raises awareness that there are Olympic Games going on in South America and you'd have to be hibernating under a rock not to understand that.

5. Andrew Schneider:

   Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.

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