knowingness
IPA: nˈoʊɪŋnʌs
noun
- The quality or state of being knowing.
- Pretending to already be informed, as contrasted with a willingness to learn.
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Examples of "knowingness" in Sentences
- The cost of the absolute knowingness, which is a fantasy, anyway, is so high.
- The press will not mention it, because the press in its "knowingness" is a large part of that despair.
- They pile up local colour till your brain reels, and they assume a sort of man-of-the-wide-world "knowingness" which is extremely unpleasant.
- Suddenly, as if he had dropped from one of the wide spreading trees, a very fat boy, with a shining face and a general air of "knowingness," appeared before them.
- Then he sits and Jensen Ackles delivers an amazing look of self-referential 'knowingness' that speaks volumes for what is really going through at that exact moment.
- There is, in this work of Alexander the younger, plenty of imitation, of convention, of that would-be knowingness which is the most amusing form of ignorance, etc., etc.
- He has perhaps like the stage villain a little too much of that cheap knowingness, which is the theatrical badge of the complete man of the world, but which gentlemen in actual life do not ordinarily affect.
- Mr. Riccardi—writing with the fervor of an advocate, the skill of a critic and the knowingness of a musician he is a pianist as well as a writer—gives us something vivid on every page of "What a Wonderful World."
- He seems to have decided this drive has nothing to do with any sense of morality and everything to do with our need, as individuals, to attain power by maintaining a level of "knowingness" (defined in terms of information, by the bulkload, rather than knowledge).
- It wasn't that the current version of the show (which was roughly the latter days of the Will Ferrell-era cast) had suddenly become dependent on popular culture and thus required the viewer's "knowingness"; this had always been the case, going all the way back to the golden era of Aykroyd, Belushi, and Radner.
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