The word 'obliviousness' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means a state of being unaware or unconscious of something. Example: She was completely lost in her own thoughts, obliviousness to the chaos around her. In this sentence, 'obliviousness' is used to describe the state of being unaware of the chaos happening around the person. It emphasizes the person's lack of awareness or attention to their surroundings.
The district judge, Raymond Dearie, revealed the characteristic obliviousness of most Americans to soccer, which has added to the resentment some have of the US playing their world policeman role in football.
Accepting an award with a mixture of obliviousness and genuine embarrassment is by far the best, and most classy, way to go.
How do you argue with this level of obliviousness?
Much of the film's humour derives from the contrast between Richard's extreme self-consciousness, manifested in extended soliloquies that reveal his overactive imagination, and his neighbour's seeming obliviousness to her sensuous charms.
Whether through English unflappability or obliviousness (it transpires it's the latter), they drive on until, on "Killing of a Flashboy" – their outrageously great B-side from 1994 – everything flows.
From Time ("infantile preoccupation with body parts") and Variety ("an alleged satire that's about as funny as a communist food shortage") to The Hollywood Reporter ("obliviousness and… immaturity"), Rogen and co-star James Franco have already fallen under a critical cosh beyond the range of Pyongyang's propaganda.
Her feigned obliviousness and hyperbolic assertions indicated an underlying liberal sensibility.
Two women important in his life, his cousin Minny Temple and his fellow-author Constance Fenimore Woolson, are mournfully, fondly conjured up, in flashbacks tinged with suggestions of their betrayal by James, who, with the selfishness of a committed artist and the obliviousness of a closeted homosexual, ignored their appeals for rescue.
(Passages in Wilson's diary suggest an odd general obliviousness to Hitler's "anti-Jewish activities," which found peculiar sympathy among some of Wilson's acquaintances and "seemed to encourage latent anti-Semitism, give people courage to be impolite").
On its opening weekend, it took in almost a quarter of a billion dollars, the second-highest worldwide gross ever — testimony to moviegoers' indifference to (or obliviousness of) reviews, as well as to a Sony Pictures marketing strategy that made certain that no sentient human failed to grasp that this was the most must-see piece of entertainment since the "Mona Lisa" arrived at the Louvre.
By now, you may have heard of the incident, quickly gone viral, in which a Fox News "on-air personality" raised questions about a revered if semi-mythical figure, with a combination of obliviousness and opacity and point-missing that set new standards even for Fox.
