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unknowings

unknowings is the plural of unknowing.

Meaning of unknowing

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

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Questions about unknowings

What is unknowings the plural of?
Unknowings is the plural of unknowing.

Words near unknowings in the dictionary

  1. unknowably
  2. unknowen
  3. unknowing
  4. unknowingly
  5. unknowingness
  6. unknowings
  7. unknowledge
  8. unknowledgeable
  9. unknowledgeableness
  10. unknowledgeably
  11. unknowledged

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