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