Having the mental capacity to understand something that's painfully obvious to anybody else and/or has overwhelming and undeniable evidence, but deliberately ignoring it for any number of reasons. Compare willful ignorance.
Jean was presented with mountains of evidence that her husband was cheating on her, and more-or-less covered her ears and went "LALALALALA." I swear, she's engaging in selective obliviousness.
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"My favourite character in the selection is eadlyn"
"your mentally flawed"
the beauty of which only certain people see.....
She is called ugly,but has selective beauty
A Ratnerarian term targeting specific individuals for the sake of offending someone or causing a massive revolt.
Max was selectively triggering a fencer in the chat, sparking a nuclear response.
one of the most used terms in commercials for a movie other than "feel good" or "suspense thriller". select cities refers to sophisticated wannabe movies that only play in ny and la. as if those two cities are nice
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Select hockey is a group of house league player that travel to different rinks and not just play at one aren.
When someone dislikes another individual in the workplace or elsewhere and decides to issue a "bless you" to everyone but that person when he or she sneezes, indicating a lack of worthiness and respectability.
"I don't think Jenna likes me anymore."
"Why not?"
"She gave the selective bless-you to everyone who sneezed in the office today but me, even though I sneezed three different times."
"Oh, that sucks."