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self-unawareness

self-unawareness noun: the lack of self-awareness.

Noun

self-unawareness (uncountable)

  1. The lack of self-awareness.
    • Is not the collocation of “love, timidity, and indolence” a telling one, and is it clear that it lies beyond Mr Verloc’s consciousness, to be enjoyed as the superior narrator’s disdain at this display of self-unawareness put on for the gratified illumination of the reader?2008 spring, Hugh Epstein, “‘The Fitness of Things’: Conrad’s English Irony in ‘Typhoon’ and The Secret Agent”, in Allan H. Simmons, editor, The Conradian: Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK)...
    • God revealed to this hurting woman the beauty and power of love; she broke free from the bondage of self-unawareness and was delivered from the strongholds that had blocked her ability to see God in her life.2017, Carolyn T. Linn, “Preface”, in Loving a Beautiful Mind: Schizophrenia and an Amazing God!, Maitland, Fla.: Xulon Press, →ISBN, page xiii

Origin of self-unawareness

From self- + unawareness.

Questions about self-unawareness

What does self-unawareness mean?
Self-unawareness means the lack of self-awareness.
What part of speech is self-unawareness?
Self-unawareness is a noun.

Words near self-unawareness in the dictionary

  1. self-unalive
  2. self-unalived
  3. self-unalives
  4. self-unaliving
  5. self-unaware
  6. self-unawareness
  7. self-unloader
  8. self-unloaders
  9. self-ventilated
  10. self-victimization
  11. self-victimizations

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