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unknowing

noun

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L329905 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

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L341880 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English knowing English unknowing From un- + knowing.

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

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

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English knowing English unknowing From un- + knowing.

  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.”