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Definition: Unawareness |
UnawarenessNoun1. Unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unawareness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references) |
Synonym: UnawarenessSynonym: unknowingness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unawareness |
| English words defined with "unawareness": forgetfulness ♦ unselfconsciousness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unawareness": ACCIDENT SITE, Anton, Anton sign, Anton's symptom. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A few patients with long-standing insulin-dependent diabetes may develop a condition known as hypoglycemia unawareness, in which they have difficulty recognizing the symptoms of low blood sugar. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unawareness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unawareness" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hypoglycemia unawareness | 42 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unawareness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جهل (blindness, darkness, ignorance, innocence, pass, stupidity, unacquaintance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不意 (unexpectedly, unpreparedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άγνοια (disregard, ignorance, nescience, unfamiliarity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 방심함. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awarenessunay неосведомленность. (various references) gaflet (blindness, heedlessness, oversight), bilgisizlik (dark, darkness, ignorance, illiteracy, nescience). (various references) sự không hay, sự không biết (incognizance, unconsciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unawareness": unawarenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Unawareness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gunawardene. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-n-n-r-s-s-u-w" | |
-2 letters: awareness. | |
-3 letters: anureses, ensnares, nearness, rennases, seawares, unawares, unswears. | |
-4 letters: answers, anurans, ensnare, ensures, nauseas, newness, rawness, rennase, reseaus, seawans, seaware, unaware, uneases, unswear, ureases, waeness, wanness, weaners. | |
-5 letters: aeneus, anears, answer, anuran, anuses, arenas, assure, ensues, ensure, enures, erases, nausea, nurses, ranees, renews, resawn, resaws, reseau, resewn, resews, reuses, ruanas, sansar, sarans, sarees. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-n-n-r-s-s-u-w" | |
+2 letters: unawarenesses. | |
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