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
The initial photos or videos were ones of unawareness of what is about to go down.
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
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
Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
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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And both reckon with the extent to which historical ignorance and the calculated distortion of the past threaten the foundation on which our country was built.—
Francine Prose,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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That denial of reality — rooted in ignorance and contempt for science — is now official policy, as evidenced by the EPA’s rescinding of its landmark finding that greenhouse gases harm public health.—
James Speyer,
New York Daily News,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Unawareness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unawareness. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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