Unknowing

adj, noun

adj, noun ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Absence of knowledge; ignorance of something.

    "Only later in the performance do we get that diegetically earlier moment, the moment when still earlier questions, fears, knowings, and unknowings congeal into the medical diagnosis of “positive.”"

  2. 2
    ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Without knowing; ignorant.
  2. 2
    Unknown, unbeknownst (to someone). obsolete

    "And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned home, the chylde Jesus boode styll in hierusalem, vnknowinge to his father and mother."

Adjective
  1. 1
    unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
a stranger toagnosticismasleepawkwardblankmindedblind to

Example

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""Then, all unknowing of Pelasgian art / and crimes so huge, the story we demand.""

Etymology

From un- + knowing.

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