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Unknowing

adj, noun

Definitions

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
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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From un- + knowing.

Etymology 2

From un- + knowing.

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