as in ignorance
the state of being unaware or uninformed
the college-educated couple's smug unawareness of current events was both surprising and sad
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Recent Examples of unawareness
The initial photos or videos were ones of unawareness of what is about to go down.
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
At the same time, Weinberger added, the greatest treatment obstacle is patients not taking their medications — sometimes due to anosognosia, the unawareness of being ill, which affects 50% to 98% of people with schizophrenia.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
At the same time, Weinberger added, the greatest treatment obstacle is patients not taking their medications — sometimes due to anosognosia, the unawareness of being ill, which affects 50% to 98% of people with schizophrenia.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unawareness
ignorance
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While some of the women who came here willingly embraced ISIS ideology and passed it on to their children, many others say they were trafficked or lured to the region through ignorance or under false pretenses.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
11 Apr. 2026
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Hence the social contract on which proto-citizens situated behind the veil of ignorance would agree, arranges social and economic inequalities in such a manner as to make the worst off as well off as possible; economic policies would benefit the well-being of the least advantaged.—
George G. Szpiro,
Big Think,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Unawareness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unawareness. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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