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1
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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2
the state of being unaware or uninformed
- obliviousness of a law is not an acceptable excuse for breaking it
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- callowness,
- greenness,
- inexperience,
- naïveté
- (also naivete or naiveté),
- rawness,
- simpleness,
- unsophistication
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“Obliviousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obliviousness. Accessed 18 Oct. 2021.
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