awareness

noun
/əˈwɛɚ.nəs/US/əˈwɛə.nəs/UK/əˈweː.nəs/

Etymology

From aware + -ness.

  1. inherited from *gawar
  2. inherited from ġewær
  3. inherited from aware
  4. suffixed as awareness — “aware + ness

Definitions

  1. The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.

    • I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness.
  2. The state or quality of being aware of something.

    • raise awareness of a topic
    • The awareness of one type of idea naturally fosters an awareness of another idea
    • Like a mind moving on a Möbius strip of events, one's consciousness goes over the same territory again and again without ever becoming aware of the nature of awareness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at awareness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at awareness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at awareness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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