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unknowingness

n. The quality of not knowing; ignorance of something.

WordNet
unknowingness
  1. n. ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) [syn: ignorantness, nescience, unknowing]

  2. unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention [syn: unawareness]

Usage examples of "unknowingness".

And for one brief tantalizing moment it had become possible for his eyes to penetrate the cloud of unknowingness that had concealed the Procurator from them for so long.

I was returned to Center in a state of unknowingness, with my memory-circuits obliterated.

He has the special quality of virginity, most and least ambiguous of states: ignorance, yet at the same time, power in potentia, and, furthermore, unknowingness, which is not the same as ignorance.

The sensation of a sudden drop in a swift elevator was nerve tearing in this darkness, this total unknowingness of place, time or intent of captors.

What they were doing, whether they were virgins or some kind of en150 closed order, was not made Clear, but I had known, for all of a split second, that I wanted to be of that company, surrounded by others of my kind, all of us with the same level of unknowingness but confident that our strange beauty would bring us within reach of our goal.

If he had not wanted more from me than my unknowingness could provide, he would have kept me free of remembrance.

Then I realised, with a shock of surprise, how it must have been my innocence that captivated him -- the silent music, he said, of my unknowingness, like La Tenasse des audiences au clair de lune played upon a piano with keys of ether.