obliviousness
obliviousness noun: the characteristic of being oblivious.
Noun
obliviousness (countable and uncountable, plural obliviousnesses)
- The characteristic of being oblivious.
- 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.2021 July 29, Mike Hale, “Review: ‘The Pursuit of Love’ Against All Odds”, in The New York Times
Forms of obliviousness
| plural | obliviousnesses |
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Origin of obliviousness
From oblivious + -ness.
Questions about obliviousness
- What does obliviousness mean?
- Obliviousness means the characteristic of being oblivious.
- What part of speech is obliviousness?
- Obliviousness is a noun.
- What is the plural of obliviousness?
- The plural of obliviousness is obliviousnesses.
Words near obliviousness in the dictionary
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