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Unwitting

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Unaware or uninformed; oblivious.

    "We've located the perfect site for experimentation on live test subjects. Kadara's "badlands" offer unsupervised access to unwitting test subjects free from any lawful or ethical constraints."

  2. 2
    Unintentional.

    "(transl.) 4th century BC, Plato, Sophist, 230a Some people, apparently, have thought about it and reached the conclusion that every case of being misinformed is unwitting."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not aware or knowing wordnet
  2. 2
    unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge wordnet
  3. 3
    not done with purpose or intent wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English unwittinge, unwitand, from Old English unwitende (“unwitting; not knowing; unaware; unconscious”), from Proto-Germanic *unwitandz (“not knowing”), equivalent to un- + witting. Cognate with West Frisian ûnwittend, Dutch onwetend, German Low German unwetend, German unwissend and unwissentlich, Icelandic óvitandi.

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