coawareness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

co- +‎ awareness

Noun[edit]

coawareness (uncountable)

  1. Joint awareness; the condition of being aware with, or of, somebody else.
    • 1997, Frank W. Putnam, Dissociation in Children and Adolescents, page 302:
      As time passed, Reginald began to acknowledge experiences of disruption in the temporal continuity of the game. He also gained a measure of coawareness of “Reggie” and other alter personality states, and began to accept that their behavior was his behavior.
    • 2005, J. Nelson Jennings, Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934), page 345:
      Takakura's certainty of God's eternal affirmation and love is bound to his co-awareness with Paul and Luther of the self's crisis of death accompanied by the Self's actualization.