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unknowing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun unknowing has 1 sense
- unknowing(n = noun.cognition) ignorantness, nescience, unknowingness - ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs); Array is a kind of ignorance
Derived form adjective unknowing1
Adjective unknowing has 1 sense
- unknowing(s = adj.all) ignorant, unknowledgeable, unwitting - unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge; "he was completely ignorant of the circumstances"; "an unknowledgeable assistant"; "his rudeness was unwitting" Derived forms noun unknowing1, noun unknowingness1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
unknowing, adj. & n.
--adj. (often foll. by of) not knowing; ignorant, unconscious.
--n. ignorance (cloud of unknowing).
--adj. (often foll. by of) not knowing; ignorant, unconscious.
--n. ignorance (cloud of unknowing).
Derivative
unknowingly adv. unknowingness n.
THESAURUS
unknowing
a stranger to, asleep, awkward, blankminded, blind to, callow, caught napping, dead to, deaf to, dumb, empty, empty-headed, gauche, green, groping, ignorant, impercipient, in ignorance of, inane, incognizant, inexperienced, innocent, insensible, insensible to, know-nothing, mindless, naive, napping, nescient, nonconceiving, not with it, out of it, raw, simple, strange to, tentative, unacquainted, unapprized, unaware, unaware of, uncomprehending, unconscious, unconscious of, unconversant, unenlightened, unfamiliar, unhearing, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, uninsightful, uninstructed, unintelligent, unmindful, unmindful of, unperceiving, unposted, unprehensive, unrealizing, unripe, unseeing, unsure, unsuspecting, unversed, unwitting, vacuous, witlessROGET THESAURUS
unknowing
Ignorance
N ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse, unfamiliarity, unacquaintance, unconsciousness, darkness, blindness, incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity, unknown quantities, x, y, z, sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground, dark ages, smattering, sciolism, glimmering, dilettantism, bewilderment, incapacity, pedantry, charlatanry, charlatism, Philister, Philistine, ignorant, nescient, unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised, unapprized, unwitting, unweeting, unconscious, witless, weetless, a stranger to, unconversant, uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened, Philistine, behind the age, shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate, unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish, empty-headed, dizzy, wooly-headed, pedantic, in the dark, benighted, belated, blinded, blindfolded, hoodwinked, misinformed, au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault, at sea, caught tripping, unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived, concealed, novel, ignorantly, unawares, for anything, for aught one knows, not that one knows, Int, God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows, ignorance never settles a question, quantum animis erroris inest!, small Latin and less Greek, that unlettered small-knowing soul, there is no darkness but ignorance.
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