Aware vs Savvy - What's the difference?
aware | savvy |
Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
Conscious or having knowledge of something.
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, title= (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(informal) to understand
(informal) Do you understand?
Shrewdness
As nouns the difference between aware and savvy
is that aware is avar while savvy is shrewdness.As an adjective savvy is
(informal) shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.As a verb savvy is
(informal) to understand.As an interjection savvy is
(informal) do you understand?.aware
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware , is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
Synonyms
* (sense, on one's guard) wary, watchful, sensitive, alert, attentive, observant * (conscious of something) apprised, informed, cognizant, conscious, mindfulAntonyms
* unawareDerived terms
* awareness * unawaresavvy
English
Adjective
(er)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
