What's the difference between aware and oblivious?

Aware


Definition:

  • (a.) Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
  • (a.) Apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lebedev says he is aware that he is under investigation.
  • (2) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (3) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (4) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (5) Grisham said she and other aides had not been aware of the trip and “appreciate everyone’s understanding”.
  • (6) Clinicians should be aware of this new and unusual association of a cerebral glioma and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
  • (7) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
  • (8) From a clinical standpoint, it is clear that psychiatrists caring for anxious patients must be aware of the possibility of secondary alcohol abuse.
  • (9) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
  • (10) As opposed to the other tests for LPD, awareness of the usefulness of the biopsy has increased as we have learned more about CL physiology.
  • (11) This project resulted in a decrease in the number of patient falls and increased staff awareness of the risk factors associated with falls among adult neuroscience patients.
  • (12) It is important to be aware of the histological characteristics of this essentially benign condition so that unnecessary radical therapies can be avoided.
  • (13) As a university student in the early 1980s and a political journalist for most of the 1990s and beyond, I was aware of the issues surrounding Britain's continental occupation.
  • (14) Indian women are aware of our tenuous grip on our rights.
  • (15) The teacher said his school believed it was aware of all the pupils who had been present, and that Nuttall was not among them.
  • (16) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
  • (17) Five hundred sixty grandmultiparous women were interviewed as to their contraceptive awareness, desirability and use in the three major hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria, between October 1, 1980 and September, 1981.
  • (18) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
  • (19) Physicians caring for children should be aware of the possible effects of day care on their patients and should be able to make recommendations to parents.
  • (20) This causes a time lag, with money continuing to be taken until the SLC is made aware that the debt has been settled.

Oblivious


Definition:

  • (a.) Promoting oblivion; causing forgetfulness.
  • (a.) Evincing oblivion; forgetful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
  • (2) The only Spanish voice heard in Catalonia is that of the Madrid government, which seems oblivious to the implications of the groundswell of pro-independence sentiment, much as at Westminster politicians missed the shift in Scottish opinion until just before the referendum.
  • (3) More than once, I have seen him stop in front of a slide with a graph on it, and become so engaged in contemplation of a particular data point that he grew oblivious of the audience.
  • (4) The Occupy protesters outside St Paul's Cathedral in London named their camp "Tahrir Square" while they sat cross-legged, sang songs and consumed Marks & Spencer sandwiches, oblivious to the obscenity of a comparison with freedom fighters who risked their lives in Egypt.
  • (5) But we can all probably do without Fifa's "fair play in marketing" lectures, which clothe commercial ruthlessness in the language of sporting decency, apparently oblivious to the impression given by wallpapering every stadium with signs that push BP or declare "We proudly accept only Visa".
  • (6) The episode is embarrassing for the BSC which, despite widespread media coverage of the tragedy, seems to have been oblivious to the Korba disaster.
  • (7) Their now customary slapstick defending at corners had enabled Danny Gabbidon to open the scoring from three yards out, although the Wales international seemed oblivious to the fact that it was indeed he who had bagged the gift-wrapped goal.
  • (8) It would appear from the video that Johnson, who was a semi-professional boxer until drugs got the better of him, is out of it – oblivious to his surroundings, oblivious to what is happening to him.
  • (9) Both Daydreaming and Safe from Harm were accompanied by atmospheric videos by the young director Baillie Walsh who then directed the now famous video for Unfinished Sympathy in which Nelson walks along West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, singing the song as if oblivious to the odd cast of street characters she encounters, while the group members fall into step behind her in cameo roles.
  • (10) Madrid artist Deno is oblivious to the grimacing, concentrating on needling a giant scaly fish into his chest.
  • (11) In the morning Mael told her son – still oblivious to the cyclone– not to open his eyes until they arrived at her parents’ house.
  • (12) The house bursts with activity, and the noise of children – nieces and nephews and the kids of visiting friends, happily oblivious to the phone calls and stream of official-looking visitors.
  • (13) On Thursday afternoon, Trump, seemingly oblivious to the announcement of the vote delay, met with a delegation of truckers at the White House, jumping into the cab of an 18-wheeler to pose for photographs, and telling them the vote was pressing ahead that night.
  • (14) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (15) Aside from one message asking if I was going out with a spammer, my Facebook friends were oblivious to my exciting new love life.
  • (16) Fears are currently acute because the long school summer holidays are when many girls are flown to Africa , the Middle East and parts of the far east, oblivious to what has been planned for them.
  • (17) David Cameron was oblivious to the hell about to be unleashed within the Conservatives as he stood triumphantly at a lectern in Brussels late on Friday afternoon.
  • (18) Trump’s obliviousness to these facts underscores his lack of understanding of the abortion debate and women’s issues generally, a trait that was on display earlier this year when he suggested women who have abortions should face “some sort of punishment”.
  • (19) He is blissfully oblivious to both the biological challenges and the political ramifications of his question.
  • (20) While we sat on the shore eating our lunch we watched the otter tucking into a butterfish with the same enthusiasm – and completely oblivious to our presence.