unawareness

1. 1.

   unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention

   Synonymsunknowingness

   Broaderunconsciousness

   Narrowerforgetfulnessunselfconsciousness

Other forms of unawareness

plural

unawarenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unawareness

What does unawareness mean?

unawareness means "unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention".

How many syllables are in unawareness?

unawareness has 5 syllables: u-na-wa-re-ness. The stress falls on "wa".

What is another word for unawareness?

Close synonyms include unknowingness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unawareness a common word?

unawareness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.