{
    "term": "awareness",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "knowing something; knowing that something exists and is important",
            "sensetop": "awareness of somethingawareness that…",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an awareness of the importance of eating a healthy diet",
                    "contextForm": "awareness of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was an almost complete **lack of awareness** of the issues involved."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **raise/heighten/increase** public **awareness** of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**a greater/a growing/an increasing awareness** of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a marketing campaign to increase **brand awareness**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There seems to be a general awareness that this is not the solution.",
                    "contextForm": "awareness that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Politicians now have much greater awareness of these problems."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I seemed to have a heightened awareness of my surroundings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most people have little awareness of the problem."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is growing awareness of the link between diet and health."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["full", "greater", "heightened"],
                "verb + awareness": ["have", "build", "create"],
                "awareness + verb": ["increase", "spread"],
                "awareness + noun": ["campaign", "programme/​program", "training"],
                "preposition": ["awareness among", "awareness of"],
                "phrases": ["a lack of awareness"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "interest in and concern about a particular situation or area of interest",
            "sensetop": "awareness about something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "environmental awareness"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Energy Awareness Week"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the emergence of a new social awareness among young people"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The group is trying to raise public awareness about homelessness.",
                    "contextForm": "awareness about something"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈweənəs/",
                "audio": "aw/awareness/awareness__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈwernəs/",
                "audio": "aw/awareness/awareness__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}