oblivious
adjective
unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of orto ).
self-oblivious
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a word derived from
oblivious.
Example Sentences
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Do we not all know that true greatness is simple, self-oblivious, prone to unambitious, unselfish attachments?
From Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Ramsey stared again and suddenly fell into that soft, rippling laugh, keen, merry, self-oblivious, which forty excusing adjectives would not have excused to her nurse.
From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable
When I am sleeping under the daisies in the lonely churchyard, you will say to yourself, He was my friend, my more than brother: he loved me with a loyal and self-oblivious devotion.
From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird
There was a self-oblivious kindness in his murmur as he refused a seat.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
For thou hast earned a mighty boon, The truths which wisest poets see 85 Dimly, thy mind may make its own, Rewarding its own majesty, Entranced in some diviner mood Of self-oblivious solitude.
From The Daemon of the World by Percy Bysshe Shelley
