AWARENESS Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

awareness

noun

ə-ˈwer-nəs

Definition of awareness

as in attention

a state of being aware while strolling in the big city, maintain an awareness of what's going on around you

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Recent Examples of awareness Teams have left the court to raise awareness for social justice issues or simply to continue to prepare for the game. — ABC News, 23 Oct. 2026 Oster suggested states should consider tax credits to entice employers to offer parental leave, and should try to increase public awareness of her survey’s results, especially among small businesses. — David Lim, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Ancestral stories shared at family gatherings and trips to powwows across the island community steeped her awareness into adulthood. — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026 The initiative was part of the retailer’s aim to support new talents and its increasing focus on enhancing its brand awareness globally. — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for awareness

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Noun

The Sun enters your 12th House, drawing your attention toward rest, reflection, privacy, unfinished matters, and everything easier to hear when the outside world becomes less demanding.

— Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 23 Oct. 2026
If they really can’t be bothered to show some respect then we shouldn’t be bothered enough to give them our attention and money.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of attention

Noun

This memory of the body’s muscle enacted in the gesture of cutting, moved from anger to mindfulness to mourning for all that was lost in that claiming of art.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
This kind of recovery can involve DBT, a therapy that focuses on mindfulness and emotional regulation.

— Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of mindfulness

Noun

Pulling on a long rope of influences that begins with the Wilsons and runs through British prog, bedroom pop, and chillwave, Doomed is a serene and satisfying collection which, like its forebears, makes a personal matter of universal consciousness.

— Ryan Meehan, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
And as my political consciousness has grown, so has my anger.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of consciousness

Noun

White’s lyrics are bittersweet pinpricks, his keening vocals already in mourning of childhood’s end—of responsibility, of bathing yourself, in so many words, knowledge of death.

— Ryan Meehan, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
In the conversation, Griffin asked the person to use that influence to deny admission to Rosman’s children, the person with direct knowledge of their conversation said.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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