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
This inclination toward solitude appears to stem from underestimating others’ willingness to engage and unawareness of how much of a lift a mere social exchange can provide.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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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Here in the United States, the writer and filmmaker Mike Judge has garnered praise over the course of his career for getting laughs out of broken systems and absurd ignorance in American culture.—
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In these special kinds of systems, even a minuscule amount of uncertainty in the measurement of the initial state of a system very quickly compounds into complete ignorance about its future behavior.—
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“Unawareness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unawareness. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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