unknowingness

Other forms of unknowingness

plural

unknowingnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unknowingness

What does unknowingness mean?

unknowingness means "ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unknowingness?

unknowingness has 4 syllables: unk-no-wing-ness. The stress falls on "no".

What is another word for unknowingness?

Close synonyms include ignorantness, nescience, unknowing, unawareness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unknowingness a common word?

unknowingness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.