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knownothingness

knownothingness is the alternative form of know-nothingness.

Meaning of know-nothingness

Noun

know-nothingness (uncountable)

  1. The state of knowing nothing; ignorance.
    • Anxious, as if I knew even then in my infant know-nothingness that my life would be torn apart by people who I'm sure meant nothing by it but were instead pursuing their own lives and their own hearts and dreams and beliefs and aspirations and horizons, much like I would and am, yet somehow I am...2003, Courtney X, Lasting Visions of X--The Haunted Artist, →ISBN, page 172
  2. A perverse admiration or embrace of ignorance.
    • There was a growing spirit of "Know-nothingness" and avoidance of foreign things in the town and the German community was, at the same time, growing stronger in its determination to protect its own rights.1989, Missouri Folklore Society Journal - Volumes 11-12, page 66

Questions about knownothingness

What is knownothingness the alternative form of?
Knownothingness is the alternative form of know-nothingness.

Words near knownothingness in the dictionary

  1. known-plaintext attack
  2. known-plaintext attacks
  3. knowne
  4. knownless
  5. knownness
  6. knownothingness
  7. knowns
  8. knownst
  9. knoworrimean
  10. knows
  11. knows a B from a battledore

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