What is a term for someone who doesn’t know something that they haven’t experienced?
I’m struggling to find a word or short term for a person or group of people who don’t experience jealousy/remorse/etc. A short sentence from someone who completely lost something when she could not come up with something else. Because of a lack of something. During the middle ages, people was not so fed up with phone technology because there is no old phone technology and they had no idea what their situation might be. However, we can still study and make interesting connections.
Does it have to be the lack of a tangible thing either, the term I’m looking for can represent the lack of anything. Why do so many kids (under 16 years) don’t like to hear the concept of racism? Since they have never been exposed to racism or anti-gay behaviour, they don’t harbor negative feelings toward people who are different than them simply because they are different.
My first thoughts were naive and ignorant, but the words tend to carry a negative connotation with them. Why would to call a person from the middle ages ignorant because they didn’t have a cell phone or to refer to a baby as naive for not being a racist? What are some better terms for a phrase?
What are the best to learn from life experience?
- blissfully anaware
An example: The small neck hugging collar and gathered shoulders create the perfect illusion of a dainty torso, and when tucked into a pair of high-waisted shorts a universally flattering silhouette is achieved. For the breastily gifted or those with none such gifts. For the brawny broad-shouldered lass or for a man without shoulders. For the young and fashion-forward and the blissfully unaware elderly alike, everything can happen.
Slightly off-topic: there’s an expression that could be used to describe how the (bad) things such people are anaware of affect them, such
- as water off a duck’s back.
oe: ‘a
clean slate’:
the team did not have complete freedom and a tabula rasa
from which to work a mind not yet affected by experiences,
impressions, etc.
a young mind not yet affected by experience
the mind in its hypothetical primary blank or empty state prior receiving outside impressions
something existing in its original pristine state
cultural definition Something new, fresh, unmarked, or uninfluenced. Tabula rasa means “white slate,” in Latin. My
mate is a tabula rasa. He is new to this corporate world of jealousy and hostility – he’s my girlfriend.
Example sentences from Collin’s dictionary:
“But you don’t start with tabula rasa (clean slate) you have to deal with society as it is, and try to make constructive progress. ‘” When Picasso believed in
tabula rasa style of art on the last day of August, an art form that has been never developed yet. TIMES, SUNDAY NIGHTS., 2002
Porn is a tabula rasa as far as Greatness is concerned. Victoria Coren, Charlie Skelton ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING: HOW WE TRIED TO MAKE THE GREATEST PORN FILM (2002) With
someone new, you’re a tabula rasa, which has its charms for those who enjoy reinventing themselves. In GLOBE & MAIL,
2003, page 87.
Immediate thoughts. idiom green behind the ears.
When all examples refer to the lack of a positive experience which can be considered positive (well not entirely, there are negative experiences you cannot avoid forever, e.g. alcohol or smoking), you are given an example. Death), translations of the German word unverdorben might fit quite well:
- pristine
- unspoiled / unspoilt
- ingenuous (or innocent, as Edward Ashworth suggested) untainted
- uninjured.
As Edwin Ashworth posted in the comments: innocent. As
Joey Laverne stated on Twitter in the comments: “I don’t know the truth”
In the situation described by the OP, I’d be inclined to use the adjectival expressions nescient , unexposed , or unfamiliar .
Uncontaminated
Obviously you would have to use this term in a metaphorical sense Obviously. I believe that one can live it untouched or contaminated by the need to possess worldly possessions, or be so pure in heart as not knowing nor understanding what evil is, is not a new one. I have not studied philosophy, I have not studied anthropology nor the science of human behaviour, but I have witnessed life, and for a time I used to believe in religion and wanted to follow its teachings and be “pure” and “free” of materialistic things. All of my life had been made up based on wishful thinking. So I realized things became real again.
Is it considered to be older while growing wiser?
What should we do if we wish to improve our lives?
The term I use to define this is “the uninitiated”
(the uninitiated)
I would suggest it uninitiated and unindoctrinated, as well as, in certain specific contexts, such as when you want to suggest that someone has not been damaged, misguided, or warped by the awareness of or adverse teachings of a prejudicial stance like racism, unspoiled or untainted?
In the situation described by the OP, I’d be inclined to use the adjectival expressions nescient , unexposed , or unfamiliar .
