obliviousness

Examples

• All

• The system selects us for stubbornness and a certain degree of obliviousness to, or contempt for, social mores about gender.

  Blog text (14)

• His general obliviousness to gang etiquette in the neighborhood had always alarmed me.

  Fiction book (2001)

• I only regret my obliviousness to the years you lived them.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Only in that space do the references to participants' obliviousness exist.

  Academic text (2004)

• I would give a show of being slightly wounded by their obliviousness.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Their obliviousness irritated her; it seemed part of the enormous injury she had to absorb.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Stunned and frightened by the depth of his obliviousness, she had actually left his apartment without retaliating at all.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Behind the mask was neither serenity nor contempt, but a near-total obliviousness to his surroundings.

  Academic text (1999)

• A second and more telling reason for Smith's anti-organizational bias is his curious and perhaps willful obliviousness to the industrial revolution.

  Academic text (1992)

• Indeed, the way in which memory can combine scrupulously attentive accuracy with hazy obliviousness is a pervasive Victorian aesthetic concern.

  Academic text (2017)

Synonyms

I

ignorance

vsobliviousness

316 3.9

Not knowing about something or how it works

is more about total forgetfulness rather than missing information

F

forgetfulness

vsobliviousness

11 3.5

A habit of not remembering things like names or keys

is complete lack of awareness or total forgetting rather than a tendency

I

inattention

vsobliviousness

8 4.6

Not noticing things around you

is total unawareness, not just lack of attention

C

cluelessness

vsobliviousness

5 4.2

Not knowing what to do or how something works

is general lack of awareness or memory rather than simple confusion

U

unawareness

vsobliviousness

2 5.4

Not knowing or noticing something

is a stronger complete lack of awareness or memory

B

blindness to

vsobliviousness

1 5.7

Not noticing or understanding something important

is a broader state of being totally unaware or forgetting

I

inattentiveness

vsobliviousness

1 7.0

Not paying attention that causes mistakes or hurts others

is full unawareness rather than careless or inconsiderate behavior

A

absentmindedness

vsobliviousness

1 7.4

A state of being so distracted that you forget things and miss details

is total unawareness rather than simple distraction

I

inadvertence

vsobliviousness

1 9.3

Not paying attention causes mistakes

is complete unawareness, not merely accidental mistakes

O

obliviscence

vsobliviousness

• Archaic

9.9

A gradual loss of memories that makes you forget the past

is broader, meaning total unawareness rather than just the process

I

incognizance

vsobliviousness

9.9

Not knowing about something

is more extreme, implying total or forgotten awareness

N

noncognizance

vsobliviousness

9.9

Not being aware of a fact or change

is complete unawareness or total forgetting rather than mere not noticing

I

impercipience

vsobliviousness

9.9

A lack of awareness of what is happening

is broader, meaning full lack of awareness or memory

U

unknowingness

vsobliviousness

8.6

Being unaware of something

is a stronger state implying complete forgetfulness or total memory loss

I

inadvertency

vsobliviousness

9.9

Not paying attention and being careless about work

is general complete unawareness, not only duty failures

Antonyms

A

awareness

336 3.2

Knowing about something or noticing it

C

consciousness

229 4.9

Being aware of something, for example a mistake or a risk

How Aware

alertness

14 2.9

inattention

8 4.6

obliviousness

2 7.4

unconsciousness

13 6.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology