Synonyms of obliviousness

obliviousness

noun

1

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ignorance
• blindness
• forgetfulness
• oblivion
• innocence
• nirvana
• unawareness
• amnesia
• unfamiliarity
• unconsciousness
• insensibility
• absorption
• abstraction
• preoccupation
• inattention
• nescience
• inattentiveness
• absentmindedness
• incognizance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• memory
• recollection
• awareness
• consciousness
• recall
• remembrance
• cognizance
• alertness

2

as in unawareness

the state of being unaware or uninformed

obliviousness of a law is not an acceptable excuse for breaking it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ignorance
• unawareness
• innocence
• cluelessness
• unfamiliarity
• nescience
• naïveté
• naiveté
• benightedness
• inexperience
• naivete
• incognizance
• greenness
• callowness
• unsophistication
• rawness
• simpleness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• awareness
• familiarity
• acquaintance
• cognizance
• experience
• sophistication
• know-how