mindmap root((意识)) aware implies vigilance in observing or alertness in drawing inferences from what is observed: ~ of a greater number of police officers out and about. cognizant implies possession of special or certain knowledge as from first-hand sources: as yet, not fully ~ of all the facts. conscious implies that one is focusing one's attention on something already perceptible to the mind or senses: ~ that my heart was pounding away. sensible implies direct or intuitive perception especially of intangibles or of emotional states or qualities: a doctor who was ~ of the woman's deep depression. alive suggests vivid awareness of or acute sensitivity to something: we were fully ~ to the momentousness of the occasion. awake implies that one has become alive to something and is on the alert: a country not ~ to the dangers of persistent inflation.