unknowing

adj, noun — 3 senses

unknowing

adj

Etymology From un- + knowing.

1

Without knowing; ignorant.

2

Obsolete Unknown, unbeknownst (to someone).

And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned home, the chylde Jesus boode styll in hierusalem, vnknowinge to his father and mother.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke:

Derived terms: unknowingly, unknowingness

unknowing

noun

Etymology From un- + knowing.

1

Absence of knowledge; ignorance of something.

Only later in the performance do we get that diegetically earlier moment, the moment when still earlier questions, fears, knowings, and unknowings congeal into the medical diagnosis of “positive.”2011, E. L. McCallum, Mikko Tuhkanen, Queer Times, Queer Becomings, page 320:

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