obliviousness

oblivious | American Dictionary

oblivious
adjective
us/əˈblɪv·i·əs/
not aware of or not noticing something, esp. what is happening around you:
She was often oblivious to the potential consequences of her actions.

Examples of oblivious

oblivious
One end of a channel is oblivious to whether or not its opposite end is connected or moves.
The designers we have worked with either remain blissfully oblivious to this, or notice and manage to adapt over time.
We remain largely oblivious to these processes because they constitute the everyday practices that form the taken-for-granted landscape of our lives.
But the boys were too oblivious to notice.
Even so the city remains an attractive venue with a vibrant and inclusive street-culture, seemingly oblivious of the climate in its state of undress.
The writers of memoirs were not oblivious to their tense relation to history.
His belated recognition of their existence in the later essay is perfunctory, and remains oblivious to their character and significance.
A thick layer of keratin develops, to which the patient is usually oblivious, and autolysis takes place underneath.
He is also unexpectedly sensitive to touch or sounds at one moment, but at others he seems almost completely oblivious to them.
It is a fiction to demand that they be oblivious.
The clip shows the opening and closing mechanism that the plant adopts to catch its oblivious prey.
Unfortunately, most humans are oblivious of such arbitrary cut-offs and develop the wrong illness at the wrong time !
They might have been oblivious to the presence of recording equipment during their interaction.
Their average estimates of 1958 were non-contextualized and oblivious to distributional issues.
Moreover, teachers, researchers, and policy-makers will remain oblivious of the tools that are available for the analysis of social and economic problems.
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