awareness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: a=ware=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

awareness, n. 

•  conscious knowledge; as, he had no awareness of his mistakes.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  a state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; as, the crash intruded on his awareness.  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

awareness

advertence, advertency, alertness, apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness, assiduity, assiduousness, attention, attention span, attentiveness, care, cognition, cognizance, concentration, consciousness, consideration, diligence, ear, earnestness, experience, feeling, heed, heedfulness, insight, intentiveness, intentness, mindfulness, noesis, note, notice, observance, observation, percept, perception, realization, recognition, regard, regardfulness, remark, respect, response, response to stimuli, sensation, sense, sense impression, sense perception, sensibility, sensory experience, thought