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unquestioningness

unquestioningness noun: the property of being unquestioning, of not asking questions or having doubts.

Noun

unquestioningness (uncountable)

  1. The property of being unquestioning, of not asking questions or having doubts.
    • Love casts the same glamor over everything, it is true, glorifying and deifying all it touches; but the freshness, the newness, the very childish unquestioningness, are charms that cease with maturity. We learn to weigh our affections cautiously and prudently, balancing the matters of loss and...1878, Mary R. Higham, The Other House, page 38
    • Similar tensions arise between other attempts to show the reasonableness of Abraham's conduct and claims about the exemplary character of his unquestioning obedience to God's commands. The more his act was obviously reasonable, the less was the virtue of his unquestioningness. The more he believed...2009, Denis O. Lamoureux, I Love Jesus & I Accept Evolution, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 33

Origin of unquestioningness

From unquestioning + -ness.

Questions about unquestioningness

What does unquestioningness mean?
Unquestioningness means the property of being unquestioning, of not asking questions or having doubts.
What part of speech is unquestioningness?
Unquestioningness is a noun.

Words near unquestioningness in the dictionary

  1. unquestioned
  2. unquestionedly
  3. unquestionedness
  4. unquestioning
  5. unquestioningly
  6. unquestioningness
  7. unqueue
  8. unqueued
  9. unqueueing
  10. unqueues
  11. unqueuing

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