unrecognizing
Failing to identify
Unrecognizing describes a failure or refusal to recognize someone or something.
An unrecognizing gaze passes over a face without registering familiarity: She looked at me with unrecognizing eyes, as if we'd never met.
The word suggests not just absence of recognition but a quality of blankness where recognition might be expected.
Lacking knowledge of something
- obliviousLacking any awareness
- unknowingLacking awareness or information
- unseeingLacking visual perception
- blindLacking the sense of sight
unsuspecting · heedless · unperceiving · unmindful · inattentive · unobservant · unnoticing · unconscious
Separated by emotional distance
- alienatedMade distant or hostile
- unacquaintedNot knowing someone
- disconnectedSeparated from a source
- foreignFrom another nation
stranger to · distant · removed · separated · unremembering · forgetting
Deliberately not considering
- snubbingPointedly ignoring someone
- ignoringDeliberately not noticing
- slightingDeliberately showing disrespect
- brushing offDisregarding without consideration
cold-shouldering · rebuffing · spurning · blanking · overlooking · cutting · shunning · turning away
unaware
Lacking knowledge of something
- obliviousLacking any awareness
- unknowingLacking awareness or information
- unseeingLacking visual perception
blind · unsuspecting · heedless · unperceiving · unmindful · inattentive · unobservant · unnoticing · unconscious · insensible
estranged
Separated by emotional distance
- alienatedMade distant or hostile
- unacquaintedNot knowing someone
- disconnectedSeparated from a source
stranger to · foreign · distant · removed · separated · unremembering · forgetting
disregarding
Deliberately not considering
- snubbingPointedly ignoring someone
- ignoringDeliberately not noticing
- slightingDeliberately showing disrespect
brushing off · cold-shouldering · rebuffing · spurning · blanking · overlooking · cutting · shunning · turning away · passing over
unrecognizingrecognizing
Perceiving as known
identifying · remembering · knowing · placing · familiar
unrecognizingacknowledging
Accepting as true
appreciating · honoring · validating · noticing · regarding
unrecognizingmindful
Consciously attentive
aware · acknowledging · attentive · noticing · perceiving
recognize, recognition, recognized, recognizing, recognizable, unrecognized, recognizes, recognizably, recognizance