raise someone's consciousness

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Definition of raise someone's consciousness in English English dictionary

To increase a person's awareness of, and often sympathy for, an issue, cause, or condition

Raised in an Old Left family, I was taught about male chauvinism and thought I knew something about it, but at the beginning of feminism's Second Wave in the 1970's, I concluded that I needed to raise my consciousness.

Hyphenation

raise someone's con·scious·ness

Turkish pronunciation

reyz sʌmwʌnz känşısnıs

Pronunciation

/ˈrāz ˈsəmˌwənz ˈkänsʜəsnəs/ /ˈreɪz ˈsʌmˌwʌnz ˈkɑːnʃəsnəs/