obliviousness

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of obliviousness There is a sort of beautiful obliviousness to Mann’s turn as Liz. Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025 There is total and telling obliviousness to his giant flat-screen television, tuned to the SEC Network and a women’s soccer match between Arkansas and … Notre Dame. Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025 But the flip side of that obliviousness is a tremendous ambition and a sort of mad optimism. Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025 The disgust stems both from that aura of obliviousness and from a retrospective knowledge that the sincerity of late-two-thousands indie music was quickly co-opted into a more commercial version of itself. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obliviousness
Noun
  • This is not, Vance’s studied ignorance notwithstanding, a normal way of doing business.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The holiday also commemorates the triumph of knowledge over ignorance centuries ago.
    Angela Chitkara, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This assistance includes support for children with autism, blindness, deafness, emotional and developmental disabilities and students with orthopedic impairments.
    K. Ward Cummings, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The same blindness appeared yet again on October 7, 2023, when Israel, one of the world’s most advanced intelligence powers, ignored evidence of Hamas’s preparations for a deadly attack.
    Big Think, Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But some degree of forgetfulness is a normal part of life.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • According to her, his reaction wasn’t just forgetfulness but entitlement.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Back at the trailer that evening, the fire session feels better than ever, a vertiginous slide into oblivion.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • And of course all these remembrances are motivated, finally, by a desire to save, to whatever extent possible, people and stories and the truth as the authors understand it from impending oblivion.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Obliviousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obliviousness. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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