Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unknowing; ignorance.
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- noun The quality of not
knowing ;ignorance of something.
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- noun unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention
- noun ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)
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Examples
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Even though Nick Garza is never mentioned by name, the poems are intended to reflect the sensation of "unknowingness" that surrounded his disappearance.
RutlandHerald.com 2010
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A state of blessed "unknowingness" that is markedly different from ignorance.
Catholic Exchange Kimberly S. Wasson 2008
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A movement like this can help a nation by acting as a corrective, or it can descend into a corrosive populism that celebrates unknowingness as authenticity, that confuses showiness with seriousness and vulgarity with true conviction.
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No matter how momentous the events they recount — or even if there is nothing to recount — diaries display a fundamental unknowingness about how things will turn out, which is an ingredient that the best works of narrative history can almost never capture.
A Tale of Two Sittings Murphy, Cullen 2008
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This place of unknowingness is, of course, where all of us live.
A Tale of Two Sittings Murphy, Cullen 2008
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I think a book that can make me think, remind me of terror and my unknowingness, well, that's a book worth reading, even if it doesn't answer all the questions I want to ask.
Archive 2007-04-01 Bardiac 2007
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And so we routinely celebrate our current level of unknowingness.
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Nothing can change the knowledge giving you by god, into and unknowingness.
truth in religions 2007
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Reading the book brings back the wonder, the terror, and the feelings of unknowingness I had when I first saw Julia's tatoo.
Archive 2007-04-01 Bardiac 2007
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How were you able to console them at that time of unknowingness?
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The fear of such unforeseen effects — what Kuzma calls “unknowingness” — is perhaps consumers’ biggest concern when it comes to G.M.O.s.
Learning to Love G.M.O.s By 2021
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