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Awareness vs Detection - What's the difference?

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Awareness is a related term of detection.


As nouns the difference between awareness and detection

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

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

    detection

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of detecting or sensing something; discovering something that was hidden or disguised.
  • *
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  • The finding out of a constituent, a signal, an agent or the like, mostly by means of a specific device or method.