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Awareness vs Comprehension - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between awareness and comprehension

is that awareness is the state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer while comprehension is thorough understanding.

awareness

English

Noun

(wikipedia awareness) (en-noun)
  • The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.
  • I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness .
  • The state or quality of being aware of something
  • ''The awareness of one type of idea naturally fosters an awareness of another idea

    Synonyms

    * (state of consciousness) consciousness, wakefulness * (state of being aware of something) knowledge, consciousness

    comprehension

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • thorough understanding
  • (logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
  • (computing) a compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages
  • Synonyms

    * understanding