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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How to say awareness in sign language?

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. Liev Schreiber:

   I think that we can all agree that we live in a relatively celebrity and fame obsessed culture, i think what's at the heart of Chuck's story is the awareness of the fact that what keeps us on track are those that are nearest and dearest to us, and how important it is to maintain those relationships and focus our energies on those relationships.

2. Justin Shepherd:

   The goal of the banners was to keep awareness of the case, it's kind of a bit of a stunt to fly a plane over the house for two hours.

3. Professor Thinus Booysen:

   The drought has come to an end, and rain has started to fall... we have enough water again to sustain ourselves, now there is an awareness of how important, and how crucial water is in this region.

4. Max Maizels:

   Most instances of bedwetting, whether they run in the family or not, have to do with heavy sleep and a sluggish coordination between bladder signals that say ‘take me to the bathroom’ and a deep level of sleep that prevents the signals from reaching awareness.

5. Dennis Santiago:

   Anything that increases the public’s awareness to good gun handling is a good thing.

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