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awareness

UK/əˈwɛə.nəs/US/əˈwɛɹ.nəs/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,575 of 15,258leans written

Awareness is knowing that something exists or is happening. Raise awareness.

Raising awareness is the easiest thing a campaign can claim and the hardest to measure. Awareness without any action is where most campaigns quietly stop.

Kingsman0000 · CC0

Definitions of awareness

  1. 1nounawarenessKnowing that something exists or is happening.B2

    “Public awareness of the condition rose and the funding did not.”

awareness is a knowing.

Also accepted in games: aware

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *worós — attentive

  2. Proto-West Germanic

    *gawar

  3. Old English

    ġewær — aware

  4. Middle English

    aware,iwar,iware,ywar

  5. English

    aware

  6. English, today

    awareness

Built from

  • *wer- · Proto-Indo-European — to heed; watch out

From aware + -ness. aware Middle English aware,iwar,iware,ywar, from Old English ġewær (“aware”), from Proto-West Germanic gawar, from Proto-Germanic waraz (“aware, cautious”), from Proto-Indo-European worós (“attentive”), from wer- (“to heed; watch out”). Cognate with Dutch gewaar, German gewahr, Danish var, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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awareness in the wild

  • Fertility awareness (FA) refers to a set of practices used to determine the fertile and infertile phases of a woman's menstrual cycle.

    Fertility awareness

  • While consciousness is being aware of one's body and environment, self-awareness is the recognition of that consciousness.

    Self-awareness

  • The states of awareness are also associated with the states of experience, so that the structure represented in awareness is mirrored in the structure of experience.

    Awareness

  • The meaning behind an awareness ribbon depends on its colors and pattern.

    List of awareness ribbons

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the ġewær family

aware

awareness — used about once every 1,489 pages · #5,575 · point at the bar for the others

  • raise awareness