单词 | awareness |
释义 | awarenessn. The quality or state of being aware, consciousness; (also) the condition of being aware (of something or that something is). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [noun] > state of awareness consciencec1384 knowledgea1398 sensibility?c1425 knowingness1611 cognizance1635 conusance1635 cognoscence1647 vaticination1678 consciousness1753 awareness1839 clairvoyance1861 perceivingness1872 1839 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch (rev. ed.) xxii. 263 My awareness of the danger of riding in such vehicles. 1880 W. Cyples Inq. Proc. Human Exper. ii. 24 No lapse of the egoistic awareness. 1880 Miss Bevington in Mind No. 17. 43 The higher the organisation the keener is the awareness. 1885 Sat. Rev. 31 Oct. 590 The most pig-headed Englishman and the most stolid German have..an awareness (if we may be granted the word) of the existence and manners of foreign barbarians. 1892 Monist 2 239 The fall of a stone may be characterised as a blind motion without awareness. 1904 Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 3/4 He has the peculiar ‘awareness’ of a soundly cultured Catholic. 1915 C. C. Martindale In God's Army 125 An ultimate awareness that right is right. 1925 Punch 20 May 559/1 And, since I own his charm of style, I can't be saddled with unfairness For wishing he had spared those vile New clichés, ‘glimpsing’ and ‘awareness’. 1935 W. S. Maugham Don Fernando xi. 229 The mystical experience is an awareness of a greater significance in the universe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1839 |
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