awareness

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From aware +‎ -ness.

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awareness (usually uncountable, plural awarenesses)

  1. The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.
    I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness.
  2. The state or quality of being aware of something.
    raise awareness of a topic
    The awareness of one type of idea naturally fosters an awareness of another idea
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 8:
      Like a mind moving on a Möbius strip of events, one's consciousness goes over the same territory again and again without ever becoming aware of the nature of awareness.

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