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consciousness-raising
[ kon-shuhs-nis-rey-zing ]
noun
- Psychology. a group-therapy technique in which the aim is to enhance the participants' awareness of their particular needs and goals as individuals or as a group.
- any method for increasing interpersonal awareness or sensitivity by teaching people to experience a situation or point of view radically different from their own:
The women's group has tried to change macho attitudes through consciousness-raising.
- an act or instance of increasing the awareness of one's own or another's needs, behavior, attitudes, or problems.
consciousness raising
noun
- the process of developing awareness in a person or group of a situation regarded as wrong or unjust, with the aim of producing active participation in changing it
- ( as modifier )
a consciousness-raising group
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Word History and Origins
Origin of consciousness-raising1
An Americanism dating back to 1970–75
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Example Sentences
Obviously most normal people would rather attend a naked consciousness-raising workshop.
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Povich: Katharine Graham went through her own form of consciousness-raising during this period.
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