Crossword clues for awareness
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
awareness
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
develop a sense/awareness/knowledge of sth
▪ The children are beginning to develop a sense of responsibility.
environmental awareness (=how aware people are of environmental issues)
▪ Schools are crucial in helping to raise environmental awareness.
heighten (sb’s) awareness (of sth) (=make people realize something more clearly)
▪ The case has heightened public awareness of the problem of sexual harassment.
raise awareness
▪ a campaign to raise awareness of meningitis
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acute
▪ The hour of acute awareness was running out into the usual hopeless analysis of a hopeless situation, the usual emotional slush.
conscious
▪ Without it, we would not have any conscious awareness.
▪ What on earth does any of this have to do with our feelings of conscious awareness?
▪ I had no conscious awareness of the Latin root of the name Hilary until Antonia Byatt pointed it out to me.
▪ Let me emphasize here that functionalists are happy to accept that many of our mental states are associated with conscious awareness.
▪ An important feature of hysterical disorders is that the patient has no conscious awareness of feigning such symptoms.
▪ Attention is the focusing of conscious awareness.
environmental
▪ The first is that there is in the developed world a new culture of environmental awareness.
▪ And that includes hues of oatmeal and taupe, which color consultants say suggest wholesome environmental awareness.
▪ Such training includes environmental awareness carried out in conjunction with the Environmental Department.
▪ The nine included product quality, technical back-up, innovation and environmental awareness.
▪ In an age of increasing environmental awareness, the new £250,000 plant in Bolney, West Sussex is the ultimate recycling plant.
▪ However, growing environmental awareness also poses challenges for conservation bodies.
full
▪ The maxims would serve only to guide him towards fuller awareness of the present situation.
▪ FitzAlan! Full awareness and memory returned in a blinding flash.
▪ To live life to the full involves awareness of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self.
general
▪ In order to promote general awareness of Sport 2000 we have also prepared a promotional leaflet, a copy of which is enclosed.
▪ Provide a general awareness of risk issues for all engineers during their initial formation.
▪ I mention it because general public awareness of accidental poisoning seems higher there than in this country.
▪ It examines a range of skills - functional, personal, management and general business awareness.
great
▪ The mortality has remained largely unchanged over the decades despite greater public awareness and better diagnostic facilities.
▪ Circular reactions lead to a greater awareness of objects as objects and to a greater understanding of cause and effect.
▪ And there is no doubt that some of these animals live lives of great awareness, and of emotion, too.
▪ There is, too, a need for a greater awareness of the changing demands on the scheme.
▪ This entails both a greater awareness of text features and provision of more time for reading.
▪ They needed, therefore, a greater awareness of financial management techniques.
▪ One is simply moved in one direction or the other in greater or lesser awareness.
▪ There appeared to be a much greater awareness of the possibilities and scope for change at the local levels.
growing
▪ There is a growing awareness among employers of prejudice towards older people.
▪ I'd had them sussed for ages and had been encouraging them to articulate their growing awareness of their lesbianism.
▪ A further motive for rethinking organisational structures has been the growing awareness of potential conflict of interest.
▪ There is today a growing awareness of ourselves in relation to our environment.
▪ An increased consciousness of conceptual systems as necessary fictions accompanies a growing awareness of the conventions of narrative.
▪ With my friends from home we had discussed Third World politics and our growing awareness of exploitation globally.
▪ There is a growing awareness of the opportunities for hauliers presented by part ownership of private railway sidings.
▪ From the beginning of this century there was a growing awareness of the need for legal advice.
heightened
▪ Beautiful, yes, but severe somehow and, to Adam's heightened awareness, reproachful.
▪ As I made my way back to the Métro I felt a sort of heightened awareness.
▪ This heightened awareness is partly the result of changes in the economic climate of the last ten to fifteen years.
▪ There is also a heightened awareness of music's proper place in the liturgy.
▪ This means that they had had a heightened awareness of their own mortality more or less throughout the disability career.
▪ Wartime discoveries of acute poverty among elderly people heightened awareness of their propensity to poverty.
▪ Again he experienced the heightened awareness and sharpening of the senses, which always accompanied his bestial transformation into a primal killer.
▪ Maura felt the heightened awareness that comes with lovemaking.
increased
▪ There is an increased awareness and concern about the possibility of violence to staff which adds to anxiety levels.
▪ There is also increased awareness that educational achievements are closely connected to national cultures and traditions.
▪ Experiential learning and student-centred learning can enable us to develop an increased awareness of helping people to make choices for themselves.
▪ Some achieved increased personal awareness through self-examination; others felt their values to be under attack.
▪ It was felt that Garden staff would benefit from an increased awareness of the capability and functions of the system.
increasing
▪ Another reason for the boom in fund raising activities is an increasing awareness of the school's place in the community.
new
▪ We are advocating a new cultural awareness for pupils in all schools from all neighbourhoods.
▪ But I do like it, like the sense of my body it induces, the new awareness.
▪ But there was a new awareness of social problems, a new consciousness of poverty and unemployment.
▪ The effort it took to launch a new awareness of the value of whole-grain breads was monumental.
▪ They both display a new awareness of each other and this colours their movements.
▪ It must also come from a new social awareness.
▪ This new awareness of yourself can make you take note of what you want for the first time for years.
▪ The sustained rate of violence was real, not merely a reflection of a new awareness or better record keeping.
political
▪ My first political awareness of oppression was when I was discharged from the nursing corps of the army over lesbianism.
▪ The years in isolation and adversity had deepened his self-knowledge and political awareness.
▪ Everything pointed the way towards a better political awareness for young people.
▪ Of course, some political awareness had begun to reach the airline industry, with its enormous numbers of women employees.
▪ A heightening of the students' sense of political awareness was to be avoided.
public
▪ The mortality has remained largely unchanged over the decades despite greater public awareness and better diagnostic facilities.
▪ Despite heightened public awareness in the last decade, the need for donated organs still far exceeds the supply.
▪ Later this year, she hopes to do a two-week sponsored horse ride - to raise both money and public awareness.
▪ Within months, he established the Lois Joy Galler Foundation, which is dedicated to raising public awareness about the food-borne illness.
▪ Police hope the bus advertising campaign will help heighten public awareness of Operation Blade.
▪ Orchids &038; Onions was founded in 1976 by local architects to improve public awareness of design.
▪ This week has been designated national backpain week to raise public awareness of the problem.
▪ Through a major media campaign it is seeking to obtain funds by raising public awareness of the museum's past history.
raising
▪ The major benefit would be in raising awareness of this potentially devastating condition.
▪ We must begin the process of raising awareness among our white brothers and sisters so that they realise that they are hurting us.
▪ The adverts were designed to generate some sales leads as well as the main aim of raising awareness and these will be handled by.
▪ Twenty green-minded companies set up the network with the aim of raising awareness of environmental issues.
social
▪ Beware of an opportunist rag trade beginning to sell you recycled clothing under the guise of social awareness.
▪ The threshold of the century also seemed to mark a quickening in social awareness.
▪ And social awareness enables them to create opportunities and neutralize opposition more skilfully.
▪ It must also come from a new social awareness.
▪ Along with his artist peers, Toulouse-Lautrec developed a social awareness that characterized the fin-de-siecle arts.
■ NOUN
campaign
▪ Most City firms are gearing up now for a big awareness campaign, with conferences, newsletters, and direct one-to-one programmes.
▪ The group has 10 paid organizers conducting a citywide registration and awareness campaign.
▪ I would be grateful if you would display this material at your surgery to assist with our awareness campaign.
raise
▪ Almost 250 car parks across the province will be cleaned to help raise awareness of the litter problem in the transport network.
self
▪ Firstly, in relation to communication skills part it addresses the development of students' skills in self awareness and reflective learning.
training
▪ The workshop is aimed at youth leaders who can develop media awareness training schemes in parishes and communities in their respective countries.
▪ It also holds workshops on media awareness training.
▪ Such has been the reaction of some advice workers to race awareness training and anti-racist training.
▪ Consultant arranged customer awareness training, taking employees into end-user sites to further their knowledge.
▪ This included awareness training, financial support and aftercare.
■ VERB
aim
▪ It aims to improve awareness of the environment and looks at energy, transport, pollution and recycling.
▪ The day is aimed to build an awareness of communication and its uses.
▪ The company claims its publicity campaigns aim to raise awareness of social and environmental issues.
bring
▪ Even something as purely physical as exercising brings its own awareness.
▪ I hope it works as I admire any attempt to bring a book more awareness.
▪ Rather, the dogma is a means of expressing the more general principle which he brings to awareness in our religious consciousness.
create
▪ So the first need is to create awareness and recognition of a building's historical and architectural worth.
▪ According to Envoy Systems' Peter Krall, the group's aim is to create awareness of computer-integrated telephony rather than to make standards.
▪ Gas chiefs have also vowed to support campaigns by university bosses and students' unions to create more awareness of gas safety.
▪ Its responsibility is to create awareness, both in and outside of the company, of current artists' product.
▪ There are people in the scene who are at least trying to create a little awareness amongst others.
develop
▪ Speechreading develops a sensitive awareness of the speaker, not merely of the words he utters.
▪ Along with his artist peers, Toulouse-Lautrec developed a social awareness that characterized the fin-de-siecle arts.
▪ The workshop is aimed at youth leaders who can develop media awareness training schemes in parishes and communities in their respective countries.
▪ The client is also constantly reminded to study and learn the sensation of tension, to develop awareness in the resting state.
▪ Experiential learning and student-centred learning can enable us to develop an increased awareness of helping people to make choices for themselves.
▪ Teachers of multi-ethnic classes need to develop some awareness of the backgrounds of their students.
▪ If we wish children to develop awareness and sensitivity, Art and Nature must ramify their schooling from their early days.
▪ Awed by this, we have naturally developed an awareness of the transcendent.
encourage
▪ To ban the use of the word in legislation would encourage the awareness that age is not an illness or a disability.
▪ Engineers should take the initiative and look for opportunities to encourage greater awareness of risk issues within their organisation.
grow
▪ May we grow towards a deeper awareness of other people - their joys, their fears and their suffering.
▪ A meeting in October demonstrated both the students' growing awareness of a sense of group responsibility and their frustration.
▪ It still reflects a growing awareness in the city-state that something more is needed.
▪ But in recent years, the field has grown in acceptance and awareness.
heighten
▪ Police hope the bus advertising campaign will help heighten public awareness of Operation Blade.
▪ Despite heightened public awareness in the last decade, the need for donated organs still far exceeds the supply.
▪ Obviously, television has heightened awareness of the sport, but that is only half the story.
▪ McKenna had me look skyward to help release a burst of alpha waves, the ones that make you heighten your awareness.
▪ Yet the very decision not to touch only served to heighten the awareness of what could happen when they did.
▪ This will heighten your awareness of little-word buildup, and help you revise quickly.
▪ This week it has launched the Depression Awareness Week Nationwide campaign to inform and heighten public awareness about depression.
▪ Gary McCaleb, mayor of Abilene, Texas, said Brown could heighten awareness about the importance of city government.
help
▪ One must be to help shape public awareness about how Britain's role in the world has changed.
▪ The patient with perceptual problems may be treated by the physiotherapist and the occupational therapist simultaneously, to help his overall awareness.
▪ Police hope the bus advertising campaign will help heighten public awareness of Operation Blade.
▪ Almost 250 car parks across the province will be cleaned to help raise awareness of the litter problem in the transport network.
increase
▪ How can we increase the awareness of self-worth of our black children.
▪ Career transitions are times of increased personal awareness and change.
▪ However, many of its attributes are not fully appreciated and the following notes are intended to increase awareness of these.
▪ We apparently have been desensitized and need to increase our awareness of the effects violent programming can have.
▪ A marketing programme would increase awareness of opportunities.
▪ It was hoped to increase awareness of the library and its services and to increase the number of users.
lead
▪ The project should lead to increasing awareness across disciplines of techniques that have found many successful applications in the physical sciences.
▪ Circular reactions lead to a greater awareness of objects as objects and to a greater understanding of cause and effect.
▪ Yet if these signals are really thought about, they can lead people to an awareness of religion.
promote
▪ Encourage engineers to speak at public meetings, discussions, seminars and conferences to promote public awareness of risk issues.
▪ Many women who heard her speech got tested for the virus and became active in promoting awareness about the disease.
▪ Its aims are to promote awareness of X and provide a forum for the discussion of technical issues.
▪ Leslie sums up some of her concerns about the Madison campus: I wish there was some way to promote awareness.
▪ Our approach is to promote awareness of the duties the Regulations impose.
▪ Demonstration projects promote awareness of new technology to consumers, with a view towards creating a demand for the product.
▪ In order to promote general awareness of Sport 2000 we have also prepared a promotional leaflet, a copy of which is enclosed.
reflect
▪ Making objectives explicit is a hostage to fortune and the failure to do so may reflect a shrewd awareness. 2.
▪ The inconsistent level of Anderson's politeness here reflects Anderson's awareness of his greater power in the speech situation.
▪ It still reflects a growing awareness in the city-state that something more is needed.
▪ This reflected a Soviet awareness that a fundamental strategic reappraisal of this part of the globe was under way in the United States.
▪ Jacobite pamphlets often reflected an awareness of the mixed nature of their support.
show
▪ They show an intense awareness of a fast disappearing way of life.
▪ As with any oral device, however, there are qualifying factors of which Longobardi shows little awareness.
▪ This showed that management awareness profiles were circulated to the staff in 30 of the 34 units that answered the relevant question.
▪ Such irony shows considerable awareness of the judgements that can be made about readers.
▪ Whether they knew George Pittendrigh or not they felt a need to be solemn, to show at least an awareness of mortality.
▪ However, leaders of working class women's groups showed no awareness of this anxiety regarding the role of the state.
▪ If such intent can not be shown, the awareness part of this mental element definition could be used.
▪ Many textbooks do show awareness of the need to deal with different discourse types, but few confront the issue of identification.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dim recollection/awareness etc
▪ My dim recollection was that there was discussion of such questions in Mary Shelley's novel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ political awareness
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An important feature of hysterical disorders is that the patient has no conscious awareness of feigning such symptoms.
▪ It is an expression of the child's experience at several levels, especially an awareness of a love of nature.
▪ Much of the credit for the rise of Holocaust awareness belongs to the survivors of the horror themselves.
▪ Such training includes environmental awareness carried out in conjunction with the Environmental Department.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
awareness
awareness \awareness\ n. conscious knowledge; as, he had no awareness of his mistakes.
Syn: cognizance, knowingness.
2. a state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; as, the crash intruded on his awareness.
Syn: sentience.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
awareness
1828, from aware + -ness.
Wiktionary
awareness
n. 1 The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer. 2 The state or quality of being aware of something
WordNet
awareness
n. 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]
state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness" [syn: sentience]
Wikipedia
Awareness
Awareness is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects, thoughts, emotions, or sensory patterns. In this level of consciousness, sense data can be confirmed by an observer without necessarily implying understanding. More broadly, it is the state or quality of being aware of something. In biological psychology, awareness is defined as a human's or an animal's perception and cognitive reaction to a condition or event.
Awareness (album)
Awareness is an album by American saxophonist Buddy Terry recorded in 1971 and released on the Mainstream label.
Usage examples of "awareness".
NARAL Pro-Choice America even decided not to oppose a bill that would require doctors to anesthetize babies being aborted after the twentieth week of pregnancy, called the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act.
But is this secret knowledge, this mystical and alchemical awareness of the Feminine, also buried under the dust of centuries?
Awareness gives rise to perception, which happens when the emanations inside our cocoons align themselves with the corresponding emanations at large.
When the glow of awareness touches them, they become active and can be aligned with the corresponding emanations at large.
This sudden awareness passed quickly, and he was once more in his own apiary, studying the single bee as she worked to get the nectar from his sleeve.
Total awareness is a primary, choiceless, impartial response to the present situation as a whole.
Sam had picked up on her clairvoyant awareness that The Gull would soon provoke the last battle for her mind and soul.
As a result, her awareness that she and Cor could actually lose their lives was sinking in.
I wish here only to draw attention to the fact that all holons possess a degree of depth, with its correlative rights, existing in a span with correlative responsibilities, and that as our own awareness evolves to greater depth itself, it more adequately unpacks the Basic Moral Intuition, which infuses us with an awareness, and a drive, and a demand, to extend the greatest depth to the greatest span, as best we can under the ridiculous circumstances known as samsara.
She then applied the plane generated by taking the seventh angle cosecant of a trisected cone that had been created from a five dimensionally rotated equilateral right triangle-impossible without awareness of ireality mathematics-and then combined the resulting geometric paradox to the chronowarp.
She took liberties with him, cosened him or hurt him, and compelled always in him a sharp awareness of her existence.
By so doing, he altered the deterministic nature of the process, since human consciousness now had awareness of this controlling element of its own behavior and thought.
When we recognize in the midst of the dream that we are dreaming, one of the awarenesses that surfaces in consciousness is that all we behold is a mirror in which our own interior being is reflected in metaphoric form.
She was in a state of exalted awareness, her every sense tuned to the dreamscape unfolding around her.
I am inclined to attribute it to a certain frame of mind, an awareness of suspicious circumstances that elude persons of duller wit.