unknowing

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
22
Letters
9

Definition of unknowing

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Without knowing; ignorant.
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adj

  1. Without knowing; ignorant.
  2. (obsolete)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

  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.””

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Etymology

From un- + knowing.

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