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say it: uh-WER-nuhs
awareness is a noun meaning "having knowledge of". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
“the crash intruded on his awareness”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for awareness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.