cluelessness

Examples

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• I was also disappointed with the cruelty and cluelessness of some bloggers.

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• I don't like mess, and I don't consider myself lazy -- but it's definitely some kind of cluelessness.

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• Amanda has been appealed to repeatedly for her cluelessness on issues of race.

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• Your last sentence illustrates your total cluelessness concerning this topic.

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• It looks like a real cluelessness, like they simply just don't get it.

  DoctorRamani

• Nothing exemplifies how out of touch I am with young American culture like my cluelessness about the "Twilight" movie franchise.

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• The bureau's cluelessness may also help explain why suspicion and politics have always dogged the census.

  Academic text (2010)

• Rudeness works on those so thoroughly cushioned in cluelessness that they need to be shaken up.

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• A stunning dearth of comprehension from someone who prefaces their cluelessness with "I hear what you're saying"?

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• "I don't think it's a coincidence that Team Romney's polling cluelessness comes after years of conservatives demonizing pointy-headed academics, including scientists."

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Synonyms

I

ignorance

vscluelessness

316 3.9

Not knowing about something or how it works

focuses more on being unable to handle a situation

I

incomprehension

vscluelessness

4 6.9

A feeling of not being able to understand something

highlights also the inability to cope with real situations

O

obliviousness

vscluelessness

2 7.4

Not noticing things happening around you

is more about failing to cope with problems than forgetting

U

unfamiliarity

vscluelessness

2 6.1

A lack of knowledge or experience with something

implies inability to handle situations rather than mere lack of experience

U

unawareness

vscluelessness

2 5.4

Not knowing or noticing something

implies difficulty handling situations beyond mere not noticing

B

blindness to

vscluelessness

1 5.7

Not noticing or understanding something important

is broader and adds inability to manage situations caused by that fact

U

unenlightenment

vscluelessness

9.7

A state of not knowing or understanding things

stresses inability to deal with practical real situations

N

noncomprehension

vscluelessness

8.1

A lack of understanding of instructions or ideas

adds a practical failure to manage everyday situations

I

incognizance

vscluelessness

9.9

Not knowing about something

implies additional difficulty coping with practical everyday situations

N

noncognizance

vscluelessness

9.9

Not being aware of a fact or change

focuses more on struggling to manage arising situations

U

unknowingness

vscluelessness

8.6

Being unaware of something

adds sense of struggle when facing a situation

I

impercipience

vscluelessness

9.9

A lack of awareness of what is happening

places more weight on failure to deal with situations

U

unintelligence

vscluelessness

7.9

A lack of knowledge or needed information about something

focuses more on failing to cope with practical situations

Antonyms

U

understanding

871 1.1

The ability to know what something means

A

awareness

336 3.2

Knowing about something or noticing it

How Uninformed

cluelessness

5 4.2

ignorance

316 3.9

unawareness

2 5.4

Surface Forms

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Etymology