unawarenessnoun [ U or S ]
/ˌʌn.əˈweə.nəs//ˌʌn.əˈwer.nəs/the fact of not knowing, understanding, or realizing something:
Part of the problem in recent years has been the unawareness of the importance of history among our political leaders.
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- When I first started policing as a young cop in Harlem, there was a total unawareness that alcohol was a drug.
- Though this all goes on just before the Second World War, the characters live in blissful unawareness of the future.
- The interviewees showed an amazing unawareness of the camera, which gave us the sense of being inside these events and not mere onlookers.
- Several themes emerged, including patients’ unawareness of early symptoms.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unaware
- be in the dark idiom
- be on another planet idiom
- benighted
- blind
- blind spot
- blissful
- fail
- faint
- ignorance is bliss idiom
- ignorant
- ill-informed
- illiterate
- in blissful ignorance idiom
- lost
- unbeknownst
- unconscious
- uneducated
- unfamiliar
- unknowing
- unnoticed
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