obliviousness
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Ms. Cho’s Ye-ji is sweetly ingratiating, earnest in her desire to capture the lives of working people, yet she has a self-congratulatory air and turns stiff when politely called to account for her own obliviousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Pigossi’s self-obsessed novelist, however, is perfectly pitched in his all-around obliviousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
“That reflects Herod’s obliviousness to the richness of nature. For me, he is one of these people who violate not only other people but the earth itself.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
Identifying behaviors that make us recoil, like self-absorption and obliviousness, requires an ironic amount of self-reflection.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2023
But it was Lola’s briskness, her obliviousness to anything beyond her own business, and Briony’s certainty that her own feelings would not even register, still less provoke guilt, which gave her the strength to resist.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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