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Awareness

noun

Having knowledge of. Synonyms: cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness. "His sudden consciousness of the problem he faced" , "Their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive"

State of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness. Synonym: sentience.

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"Awareness" Quotes from Famous Books

... was not hasty in retreat. For a time he snarled at every shell-scream in the air and every shell-burst in the bush. But after a time, while the awareness of them continued uncomfortably with him, the hair on his neck remained laid down and he neither uttered a snarl ...

— Jerry of the Islands • Jack London

... sudden awareness of what a wonderfully efficient and competent organization the SS was—how it kept careful watch on all its members, and assisted them in ...

— Man of Many Minds • E. Everett Evans

... According to the measure of the giving is the replenishment in vitality. The pure trance of work, the different reservoirs of power opening so softly; the instrument in pure listening—long forenoons passing, without a single instant of self-consciousness, desire, enviousness, without even awareness of ...

— Child and Country - A Book of the Younger Generation • Will Levington Comfort

... insensate. The lock appeared to circle about him, then he was on his back and Graylock's pet was alighting with a flutter of wings on his chest. It craned its head forward to peer into his face, the tip of its mouth tube open, showing a ring of tiny teeth. Vision and awareness left Dasinger together. ...

— The Star Hyacinths • James H. Schmitz

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