unknowingly

What it means

1. not comparableWithout awareness, without intent.

   An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file.

   2012, Albert J. Marcella, Cyber Forensics, page 116

   Synonyms: unwittingly

In a sentence

An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file.

2012, Albert J. Marcella, Cyber Forensics, page 116

Where it comes from

From unknowing + -ly.