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unaware

[uhn-uh-wair]
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adjective

not aware or conscious; unconscious: to be unaware of any change.

adverb

unawares.

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RELATED WORDS

incapacity, obliviousness, darkness, unconsciousness, rawness, fog, simplicity, innocence, vagueness, blindness, unfamiliarity, bewilderment, illiteracy, nescience, oblivion, dumbness, disregard, crudeness, sciolism, incomprehension

Origin of unaware

1585–95; un-1 + aware; compare Middle English unywar (see y-)
Related formsun·a·ware·ly, adverbun·a·ware·ness, noun

Synonyms for unaware

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1. unsuspecting, ignorant, unknowing.
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Examples from the Web for unawareness

Historical Examples of unawareness

  • But still more responsible for their unawareness was the educational system in which they were reared.

    Medieval People

    Eileen Edna Power

  • She had found a blessed refuge from her perplexities in the stolid Adelaide's unawareness.

    The Reef

    Edith Wharton

  • It had become evident to him that what might be dulness might also be unawareness.

  • Their very aloofness from the world—its unawareness of their story's existence made for the perfection of all they felt.

    Robin

    Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • It rebukes the extravagance, the rigidity, the unawareness of the individual who fails to adapt himself to his social environment.

British Dictionary definitions for unawareness

unaware

adjective

(postpositive) not aware or conscious (of)unaware of the danger, he ran across the road
not fully cognizant of what is going on in the worldhe's the most unaware person I've ever met

adverb

a variant of unawares
Derived Formsunawarely, adverbunawareness, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for unawareness

unaware

see unawares.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper