unknowingness
Example Sentences
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I felt shamed and scared, the unknowingness of what people may or may not think.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2021
“The unknowingness about what is going to happen — it really has people frightened, losing sleep, calling our hotline for updates.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
So much of its power lies in its mystical unknowingness — the way Mr. Vernon swallows the voice and the self into an ambient undertow, a slow and warm suffocation by digital manipulation.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2016
As we ate, Gunn spoke about how “Eyes on the Lines” was inspired, in part, by Rebecca Solnit’s “A Field Guide to Getting Lost,” a collection of essays, published in 2005, that advocates for unknowingness.
From The New Yorker ● May 24, 2016
In your gladness of heart, with all your youthful unknowingness, you are hovering on the very brink of a terrible abyss.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
