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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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Recent Examples of obliviousness
Gentleman thief Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven) circles the prize while Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) bungles the pursuit with sublime obliviousness.
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Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
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
Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
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
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During which Helm suffered loneliness, inconsequence and ignorance – an original and terrible fugue state.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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While potentially shakier data may cause volatility in markets later this week, for now ignorance appears to be bliss.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The nerve damage eventually caused by this pressure prevents normal vision and can result in partial or total blindness.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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These can show up as shimmering spots, zig-zag lines, blind spots, tunnel vision, or even temporary blindness.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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But some degree of forgetfulness is a normal part of life.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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According to her, his reaction wasn’t just forgetfulness but entitlement.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Over the past five decades, Journey have been through an astounding number of lineup changes, but the band has found its way back from oblivion time and and time again.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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In the 1940s, at the Viking Press, Cowley initiated the resurrection of William Faulkner from oblivion, a project that put the writer on the syllabus in the ever-expanding postwar university, brought the rest of his work back into print, and surely helped win him the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.—
Michael Gorra,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Obliviousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obliviousness. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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