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as in ignorance
a state of being disregardful or unconscious of one's surroundings, concerns, or obligations
her general obliviousness often results in her walking into walls and other hard-to-miss objects
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as in unawareness
the state of being unaware or uninformed
obliviousness of a law is not an acceptable excuse for breaking it
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Noun
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Trump’s disdain for classic neoliberal U.S. soft power — and for the values and institutions that uphold it — is likely to hurt American interests in just the same way his tariff regime and utter ignorance of real-world trade theory do.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
7 May 2025 -
The pathos here thus depends largely on the reader’s total ignorance of Vietnamese.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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What once felt like steady ground for many leaders now feels like a slippery slope into oblivion with no glimmer of a return.—
Jamie Griffith,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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Then a call from Reagan — yes, Reagan — threatening to sue all of them into oblivion sends Joe racing to Mooney’s.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Obliviousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obliviousness. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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