Unwitting

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1
Unaware or uninformed; oblivious.
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clueless ignorant benighted
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2
Unintentional.
(transl.) 4th century BC, Plato, Sophist, 230a Some people, apparently, have thought about it and reached the conclusion that every case of being misinformed is unwitting.
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inadvertent unintended

Word Origin

From Middle English unwittinge, unwitand, from Old English unwitende (“unwitting; not knowing; unaware; unconscious”), from Proto-Germanic *unwitandz (“not knowing”), equivalent to un- + witting. Cogn...

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