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unknowledge

unknowledge noun: the lack or absence of knowledge.

Noun

unknowledge (uncountable)

  1. The lack or absence of knowledge.
    • It is imagination out of which choice arises, and the nature of choice is inevitably closely linked with the uncertainty, or - to use Shacklean terminology - the unknowledge of the outcome of decision-making.1990, Stephen F. Frowen, George Lennox Sharman Shackle, Unknowledge and choice in economics

Origin of unknowledge

From un- + knowledge.

Questions about unknowledge

What does unknowledge mean?
Unknowledge means the lack or absence of knowledge.
What part of speech is unknowledge?
Unknowledge is a noun.

Words near unknowledge in the dictionary

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

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