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Definition of Knowingness
1. Noun. Having knowledge of. "Their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive"
Specialized synonyms: Self-awareness, Feel, Sense
Generic synonyms: Knowing
Attributes: Aware, Cognisant, Cognizant, Incognizant, Unaware
Derivative terms: Aware, Aware, Cognisant, Cognise, Cognizant, Cognize, Conscious, Knowing, Knowing, Knowing
Antonyms: Incognizance
2. Noun. Shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge.
Derivative terms: Knowing, Knowing
Definition of Knowingness
1. n. The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
Definition of Knowingness
1. Noun. The quality or state of being knowing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Knowingness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knowingness
Literary usage of Knowingness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... 1'0113' bespeaks the scientific knowingness ' of the Western mind, to call
the temper of the Great Lyric broadly ' ' Asiatic ' ' would be rash. ..."
2. Autology: An Inductive System of Mental Science; Whose Centre is the Will by David Henry Hamilton (1873)
"This is the fact of essential knowingness, knowing perpetually and ... Essential
knowingness is the mind's ever and perpetually being conscious, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"As it is, vulpine knowingness sits yet at its hopeless problem, " Given a world
of Knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action;" — how cumbrous a ..."
4. Mere Literature, and Other Essays by Woodrow Wilson (1896)
"The atmosphere which kills it is the atmosphere of sophistication, where cleverness
and fashion and knowingness thrive: cleverness, which is froth, ..."
5. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"I 1 lately been rereading them nearly all, with a sense of his extraordinary
knowledge, and a for his knowingness in the region of woman's : which I could ..."
6. On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Well, I must say, the vulpine intellect, •with its 10 knowingness, its alertness and
... As it is, vulpine knowingness sits yet at it hopeless problem, ..."
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