Obliviousness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The characteristic of being oblivious. countable, uncountable
"Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality."
- 2 total forgetfulness wordnet
Example
More examples"Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality."
Etymology
From oblivious + -ness.
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