Question

this sentence is from the passage \i am not a gardener, and i tend to walk through my days in a kind of absent - minded - professor obliviousness.\ (paragraph 6) what does obliviousness mean? 1. being interested in something 2. being unaware of something 3. being impressed by something 4. being confused by something (from \first skunk of spring\ by marilyn nelson. copyright © 2009 by marilyn nelson. used by permission of the author) there really is a time for everything under heaven. you dont get lilacs at snowdrop time. spring makes you wait. ive never memorized the sequence of flowerings. im sure gardeners know of its predictable clockwork. here, it starts with circles of green and white snowdrops growing among patches of leftover snow. then crocuses bring the first pastels. the trees pink at their branch tips, and skunk cabbage unfurls in the marsh. then a profusion of bright yellow forsythia. then the old lilac bushes lining the driveway explode with perfume. then violets, bluettes, and dandelions in the lawn. i am not a gardener, and i tend to walk through my days in a kind of absent - minded - professor obliviousness. yet even i notice how each plant comes to blossom at its own time, that it will not bloom out of sequence. one spring i commuted weekly by plane from my home in connecticut to a writer - in - residence position in tennessee. i experienced a double spring that year, and recognized for the first time how clearly chronological the sequence of spring is. as infants follow an almost invariable sequence of development, so spring unfolds with its own inevitability. i would fly out of hartford as the crocuses were starting, and arrive in nashville to a riot of daffodils. i would fly out of hartford as daffodils were assembling their noisy parades, and arrive in nashville to see stately individual tulips. but tennessee trumped connecticut late in the season, with its redbud trees. after their season i was too exhausted from all that flying to be able to notice what flowered next.

Explanation:

The word "obliviousness" means a state of being unaware. In the context of the passage, the author is walking through their days without noticing the plants coming into bloom, indicating a lack of awareness.

Answer:

1. being unaware of something