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Definition of unknowing in English: unknowingadjective ʌnˈnəʊɪŋˌənˈnoʊɪŋ Not knowing or aware. the lions moved stealthily towards their unknowing victims Example sentencesExamples - Here we have the heart of the fallacy, or rather an unknowing dissection of the fallacy by one of its authors.
- When he first went to Munster he was considered a journeyman by unknowing supporters, but he has become infinitely more than that.
- Faced with this depressing reality, a resentment is born and carefully nourished against the unknowing spouse for his failure to make frequent declarations of his appreciation and regard.
- Pursued across the continent by her domineering mother and agent, she hitches a ride with an unknowing gang of holidaymakers.
- For the unknowing reader, where is Chaco in comparison to Aztec in comparison to Paquimé?
- The play concerns the unknowing inheritance of a fatal sexually transmitted disease by the artist son of an outwardly respectable father, who has died by the time the play begins.
- I don't think I look pregnant to the unknowing eye (like I've always had this little paunch), but to those who do know it's there, it's really there.
- The thought of our two innocent, unknowing birds having their wings clipped and being put behind a high fence was disturbing.
- Unfortunately, it is difficult to know exactly how widespread the problem is because many infected bottles are consumed by unknowing drinkers who blame the off taste on the wine itself.
- At the centre of the plot is Rosalind who, dressed as a young man, teaches her unknowing suitor Orlando the surest way to win a woman's heart.
- To the unknowing bystander it must have looked as if we were 3 youths who had robbed the car and were on a malicious ‘joyride’ around town bent on defacing it as if we were in a Demolition Derby.
- The goal is to cause the unknowing victim to lose his teeth as if the result of natural causes.
- A problem that any composition teacher will be aware of is unknowing imitation.
- Others ask whether it is not already happening again, before our unknowing eyes because we do not yet know the right questions to ask.
- And at the same time it doesn't tell us much about Herb Alpert except that his Tijuana Brass were the kind of slick studio boys who could play behind anything - even in their virtual, unknowing sleep!
- Some of the most successful moments of the project therefore were the spontaneous reactions and participation from the unknowing public, and the happenings that characterise this particular city block.
- But the tactic can expose individuals who may be unknowing accomplices, as an Irish woman discovered 15 years ago.
- May I commend you brother, for the unspeakable truths you have revealed to the average unknowing Canadian.
- To the unknowing wanderer, the setup could easily pass as a record store, complete with listening stations, loads of records, CDs and merchandise.
- Even worse for many family members is the feeling that they acted as unknowing accomplices to the U.S. government.
Synonyms fortuitous, chance, occurring by accident, occurring by chance, adventitious, fluky, coincidental, casual, serendipitous, random, aleatory
noun ʌnˈnəʊɪŋˌənˈnoʊɪŋ mass nounliterary Lack of awareness or knowledge. Example sentencesExamples - As was the case with Socrates, philosophy has sought to peel itself away from sophism by admitting to its ignorance, as if unknowing were a pathos to be confessed.
- I don't know what we're going to do or when we're going to do it, but at least I'm not lost in what the Trunk called the ‘great cloud of unknowing.’
- Situatedness promises knowledge but in practice leaves us in a cloud of unknowing about our place in the world.
- It's a picture of all-knowing Newton, the defining scientific mind of world history, staring into the abyss of unknowing.
- Grace is gradually revealed in the midst of unknowing.
Derivatives noun That territory, like Beckett's (u-topic) no-spaces, is a beyond-ness or in-between-ness, a de-territorializing move from the known to a condition of unknowingness. Example sentencesExamples - In a similar vein of unknowingness, we also admit we're not sure what it is about either.
- Tragic, because unknowingness is the human condition, and, in the end, there's no getting around it.
- They are not re-makes or covers exactly, more like new originals, archetypal versions sung with an unknowingness that defies ownership.
- Like a child, this unknowingness will lead to bad behavior, as the child/critic attacks the filmmaker/parent for daring to ask questions for which they will not be given easy answers.
Definition of unknowing in US English: unknowingadjectiveˌənˈnoʊɪŋˌənˈnōiNG Not knowing or aware. the lions moved stealthily toward their unknowing victims Example sentencesExamples - Pursued across the continent by her domineering mother and agent, she hitches a ride with an unknowing gang of holidaymakers.
- When he first went to Munster he was considered a journeyman by unknowing supporters, but he has become infinitely more than that.
- I don't think I look pregnant to the unknowing eye (like I've always had this little paunch), but to those who do know it's there, it's really there.
- Faced with this depressing reality, a resentment is born and carefully nourished against the unknowing spouse for his failure to make frequent declarations of his appreciation and regard.
- At the centre of the plot is Rosalind who, dressed as a young man, teaches her unknowing suitor Orlando the surest way to win a woman's heart.
- Unfortunately, it is difficult to know exactly how widespread the problem is because many infected bottles are consumed by unknowing drinkers who blame the off taste on the wine itself.
- The thought of our two innocent, unknowing birds having their wings clipped and being put behind a high fence was disturbing.
- A problem that any composition teacher will be aware of is unknowing imitation.
- To the unknowing wanderer, the setup could easily pass as a record store, complete with listening stations, loads of records, CDs and merchandise.
- Even worse for many family members is the feeling that they acted as unknowing accomplices to the U.S. government.
- The play concerns the unknowing inheritance of a fatal sexually transmitted disease by the artist son of an outwardly respectable father, who has died by the time the play begins.
- But the tactic can expose individuals who may be unknowing accomplices, as an Irish woman discovered 15 years ago.
- For the unknowing reader, where is Chaco in comparison to Aztec in comparison to Paquimé?
- Some of the most successful moments of the project therefore were the spontaneous reactions and participation from the unknowing public, and the happenings that characterise this particular city block.
- To the unknowing bystander it must have looked as if we were 3 youths who had robbed the car and were on a malicious ‘joyride’ around town bent on defacing it as if we were in a Demolition Derby.
- And at the same time it doesn't tell us much about Herb Alpert except that his Tijuana Brass were the kind of slick studio boys who could play behind anything - even in their virtual, unknowing sleep!
- May I commend you brother, for the unspeakable truths you have revealed to the average unknowing Canadian.
- The goal is to cause the unknowing victim to lose his teeth as if the result of natural causes.
- Others ask whether it is not already happening again, before our unknowing eyes because we do not yet know the right questions to ask.
- Here we have the heart of the fallacy, or rather an unknowing dissection of the fallacy by one of its authors.
Synonyms fortuitous, chance, occurring by accident, occurring by chance, adventitious, fluky, coincidental, casual, serendipitous, random, aleatory
nounˌənˈnoʊɪŋˌənˈnōiNG literary Lack of awareness or knowledge. Example sentencesExamples - It's a picture of all-knowing Newton, the defining scientific mind of world history, staring into the abyss of unknowing.
- Grace is gradually revealed in the midst of unknowing.
- I don't know what we're going to do or when we're going to do it, but at least I'm not lost in what the Trunk called the ‘great cloud of unknowing.’
- Situatedness promises knowledge but in practice leaves us in a cloud of unknowing about our place in the world.
- As was the case with Socrates, philosophy has sought to peel itself away from sophism by admitting to its ignorance, as if unknowing were a pathos to be confessed.
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