unknowing

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ knowing.

Adjective

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unknowing (comparative more unknowing, superlative most unknowing)

  1. Without knowing; ignorant.
  2. (obsolete) Unknown, unbeknownst (to someone).

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Noun

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unknowing (plural unknowings)

  1. Absence of knowledge; ignorance of something.
    • 2011, E. L. McCallum, Mikko Tuhkanen, Queer Times, Queer Becomings, page 320:
      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.”