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Awareness   /əwˈɛrnəs/   Listen
noun
awareness  n.  
1.
Conscious knowledge; as, he had no awareness of his mistakes.
Synonyms: cognizance, knowingness.
2.
A state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; as, the crash intruded on his awareness.
Synonyms: sentience.





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"Awareness" Quotes from Famous Books



... rarely and incidentally. In a clever marksman in the act of taking aim, or in a skilled surgeon performing a difficult operation all is found to converge, both physically and mentally. Still, let us take note of the result: in these conditions the awareness of real personality disappears; the conscious individual is reduced to an idea; whence it would follow that perfect unity of consciousness and the awareness of personality exclude each other. By a different course we again reach the same conclusion; the ego ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... negative with the future, and by extension with the conditional, suggests a keen awareness of the underlying system, particularly since the Canadzucai rules to which he refers require the formation be made from the present. It should be noted that this rule is significantly more elegant than that which derives the negative ...
— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado
... in the room, here, in my own house, and you want to enlarge yourself with this friend of mine, such a friend as he is, yet you cannot get beyond your awareness of me you are held back by my being in the same world with you, do you think it is ...
— Look! We Have Come Through! • D. H. Lawrence
... independent of intercourse and contagion, though of course, in cases, considerably influenced by it; and that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the RISE OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS—that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter
... groups of ideas at the same time. Some claim that any so-called division of attention is really a rapid alteration. Yet in any case subjectively we experience it as an actual division. Our mind is split and can be here and there apparently in one mental act. This inner division, this awareness of contrasting situations, this interchange of diverging experiences in the soul, can never be ...
— The Photoplay - A Psychological Study • Hugo Muensterberg


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