Know-nothingness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Know-nothingness is a noun meaning The state of knowing nothing; ignorance.
Meaning
The state of knowing nothing; ignorance.
More Meanings
- A perverse admiration or embrace of ignorance.
Example Sentences
More particularly agnosticism is an attitude of “know-nothingness”.
Anxiety is a state of emotional know-nothingness in which the individual succumbs to helplessness.
The new know-nothingness presents itself as a perverse reversal of Bacon's notorious declaration, “knowledge is power.”
Know-nothingness is this time's prime feature: a new know-nothingness, a greater know-nothingness, even a new order, even neo-fascism.
Word Forms
- knownothingness
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include knownothingness, know-nothing, nonknowledge, unknowing, knowledgelessness, nothingness.
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