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Webster 1913 Edition


Knowingness

Know′ing-ness

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Noun.
The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.

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knowingness

knowingness

English

Noun

knowingness (countable and uncountable, plural knowingnesses)

  1. The quality or state of being knowing.
    • 2007 February 4, David Berreby, “No ____ Need Apply”, in New York Times:
      Dripping with unearned knowingness, indifferent to the factual debate involved.

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