obliviousness

Example Sentences

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“I honestly feel like I just don’t pay attention,” explained Tess Steplyk of her six-year streak of quake obliviousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 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

Someday this chapter may be viewed as fascinating for its obliviousness and, from a public relations standpoint, its recklessness.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2023

Then there’s that hysterical part of it, the idea that 75 percent of this Final Four hails from places known for obliviousness about sports.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

Emenike’s obliviousness had upset him, because it suggested a disregard, and, even worse, an indifference to him, and to his present life.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie