unknowingnessn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈnəʊɪŋnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌənˈnoʊɪŋnᵻs/ The state or quality of being unknowing; ignorance; naivety.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun]
unwisdomc825
nutelnessa1200
ignorance?c1225
uncunningc1290
uncunnessa1300
unwittingnessa1300
unknowledging1357
lewdness1362
unsciencec1374
mislearninga1382
simplenessa1382
unknowinga1382
ignorancec1384
unwittingc1384
simplessec1391
rudenessc1400
unweeting14..
lewdhead1401
misknowing?a1425
simplicityc1450
unknowledge1470
discognisancec1475
unknowingness1486
non-knowledge1503
ignorancy1526
simplehead1543
unlearnedness1555
ignoration1563
rusticity1571
ignorantness1574
ignoring1578
inscience1578
ignoramus1583
ingramness1589
lack-learning1590
idiotism1598
ignoramus1598
idiocy1605
nesciencea1625
nescio1637
inerudition1685
unawareness1847
agnosia1879
moronism1922
cluelessness1960
1486 J. Mirk's Liber Festiuall (Rood & Hunte) sig. bvi/2 Vnknowyngnesse shall not excuse yow at the day of dome.
1655 M. Casaubon Treat. Enthusiasme iii. 116 (note) Some may make difference between ignoratio and ignorantia. But I know not how to do it in English: except I may be allowed to say unknowingness: or the like.
1844 C. M. Keteltas Last of Plantagenets vi. 18 I will live no longer in this sad unknowingness of what I am.
1872 H. Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 211 The unknowingness, the innocence, the sweet simplicity of childhood.
1961 ELH 28 236 The presumptuous unknowingness of Satan.
2007 U.S. News & World Rep. 19 Feb. 11/3 I was hampered by the unknowingness of not knowing what I knew or didn't.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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