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unknowing

unknowing adjective: without knowing; ignorant.

Adjective

unknowing (comparative more unknowing, superlative most unknowing)

  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.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke

Noun

unknowing (plural unknowings)

  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.”2011, E. L. McCallum, Mikko Tuhkanen, Queer Times, Queer Becomings, page 320

unknowing meaning in Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit and Arabic

unknowing in Hindi

unknowing, ignorant
अज्ञ ajña

unknowing in Punjabi

unknowing
نیانا nyāṇā

unknowing in Sanskrit

unknowing, ignorant
अज्ञ ajña

unknowing in Arabic

without knowing
جَاهِل jāhil

Forms of unknowing

Adjective
comparativemore unknowing
superlativemost unknowing
Noun
pluralunknowings

Origin of unknowing

From un- + knowing.

Words formed from unknowing

Questions about unknowing

What does unknowing mean?
Unknowing means without knowing; ignorant.
What is unknowing in Hindi?
Unknowing in Hindi is अज्ञ (ajña). See Unknowing meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is unknowing?
Unknowing can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near unknowing in the dictionary

  1. unknowable
  2. unknowableness
  3. unknowables
  4. unknowably
  5. unknowen
  6. unknowing
  7. unknowingly
  8. unknowingness
  9. unknowings
  10. unknowledge
  11. unknowledgeable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unknowing (page history and authors); अज्ञ (Hindi) (page history and authors); نیانا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); अज्ञ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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