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# awareness

«awareness» in Mova's school dictionary: **knowing about something or noticing it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (awareness — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Awareness is knowing about something or noticing it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awareness/#m1)

2) Awareness is also understanding why something matters, as in awareness of road safety. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awareness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In safety lessons pupils learn awareness of danger: look and listen at roads, be aware of strangers online. In health and social lessons: «raise awareness» (help people learn about something), «awareness week», «self-awareness». In science and nature: animals have awareness of predators.

### examples

- Road safety week raises awareness of how to cross safely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awareness/#x1)
- The poster helps build awareness of bullying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awareness/#x2)
- Good awareness of your surroundings keeps you safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awareness/#x3)
- The charity works to raise awareness about clean water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awareness/#x4)
- Meerkats have great awareness of danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awareness/#x5)
- Self-awareness means understanding your own feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awareness/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «awareness» (not «an awareness of» in everyday use, though «a growing awareness» is possible). Adjective: aware («aware of», not «aware about»). Opposite: unawareness.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «awareness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awareness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.