Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being oblivious or forgetful; forgetfulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun total forgetfulness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic of being
oblivious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun total forgetfulness
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Examples
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This already seems like the definition of obliviousness and one day will undoubtedly look delusional, but it's the business-as-usual mentality with which Washington faces a new world.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tom Engelhardt 2011
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It requires a certain kind of obliviousness – as well as a failure of logic – to imagine that, because that is what everyone should be doing eventually, it is what anyone should be doing now.
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AXELROD: It spoke to the kind of obliviousness that people associated with the Bush administration and it kind of augmented our message at a time when we so clearly needed change.
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AXELROD: It spoke to the kind of obliviousness that people associated with the Bush administration and it kind of augmented our message at a time when we so clearly needed change.
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There's an odd kind of obliviousness that's crept into journalism over the past couple of decades that's now a full blown eruption.
RealClimate Mark A. York 2009
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"Inferior minds, to whom this swift mental vision is a thing unknown, who are ignorant of the spirit's inner workings, laugh at the dreamer; and if he is subject to this kind of obliviousness, regard him as a madman.
Louis Lambert Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Everyone loves a free clown show and your obliviousness about how vile and worthless you are is just hilarious
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People with Asperger's, by their very obliviousness, hold up a lens to our society and allow us to see it and ourselves in a new way.
An Interview with Margot Livesey about Banishing Verona 2010
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Artists, actors, musicians have expressed some reluctance to practice meditation lest they be content in all the worst ways, lying about in placid obliviousness.
Sharon Salzberg: What's Better for Creativity: Depression or Happiness? Sharon Salzberg 2010
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Anyway, SLC, your total obliviousness to things that anyone knows who reads Israeli newspapers is a standard sign of the psychopath.
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