Incognition

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A condition of unknowingness; an act of unknowing.

    "thus did men of rank and opulence, practise like children, for that short fleeting hour of incognition or inebriety, sport little superior to the infantile recreations of the nursery!"

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"thus did men of rank and opulence, practise like children, for that short fleeting hour of incognition or inebriety, sport little superior to the infantile recreations of the nursery!"

Etymology

From in- + cognition.

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