Awareness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  awareness \awareness\ n.
     conscious knowledge; as, he had no awareness of his mistakes.
  
     Syn: cognizance, knowingness.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  


     2. a state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness;
        as, the crash intruded on his awareness.
  
     Syn: sentience.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  awareness
       n 1: 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" [syn: {consciousness}, {cognizance}, {cognisance},
             {knowingness}]
       2: state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the
          crash intruded on his awareness" [syn: {sentience}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "awareness":
     advertence, advertency, alertness, apperception, appreciation,
     appreciativeness, assiduity, assiduousness, attention,
     attention span, attentiveness, care, cognition, cognizance,
     concentration, consciousness, consideration, diligence, ear,
     earnestness, experience, feeling, heed, heedfulness, insight,
     intentiveness, intentness, mindfulness, noesis, note, notice,
     observance, observation, percept, perception, realization,
     recognition, regard, regardfulness, remark, respect, response,
     response to stimuli, sensation, sense, sense impression,
     sense perception, sensibility, sensory experience, thought