Nonknowledge

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of not knowing. uncountable

    "2009, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens interview, reddit.com It's only when you have grazed on the lower slopes of your own ignorance and begun to understand the great vistas of nonknowledge that you have, that you can claim to have been educated at all."

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"2009, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens interview, reddit.com It's only when you have grazed on the lower slopes of your own ignorance and begun to understand the great vistas of nonknowledge that you have, that you can claim to have been educated at all."

Etymology

From non- + knowledge.

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