Aware vs Inapprehension - What's the difference?
aware | inapprehension |
Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
Conscious or having knowledge of something.
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, title= (rare) Failure to notice; failure to be aware of; lack of apprehension.
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* 1909 , , St Martin's Summer (2008 edition), ISBN 9780755115556,
* 1966 , Paul J. Sharits, "Red, Blue, Godard," Film Quarterly , vol. 19, no. 4, p. 27:
As an adjective aware
is vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.As a noun inapprehension is
failure to notice; failure to be aware of; lack of apprehension.aware
English
Adjective
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Synonyms
* (sense, on one's guard) wary, watchful, sensitive, alert, attentive, observant * (conscious of something) apprised, informed, cognizant, conscious, mindfulAntonyms
* unawareDerived terms
* awareness * unawareinapprehension
English
Noun
(en-noun)- These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.
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- He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.
- Camile is naturally disgusted with Paul but he doesn't seem to apprehend her reason—it is this inapprehension of the obvious which creates the tension.