knowingness
Americannoun
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the quality of being aware, intelligent, well-informed, or intentional; knowing quality.
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the quality of being shrewd, sharp, or astute, or of trying to seem so in a self-conscious way.
Example Sentences
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When I got this information from my parents, it was a confirmation that I’m not crazy and about my own sense of knowingness.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2023
This knowingness is very maternal, and is cast over all of these characters like a blanket, or like signal fires themselves.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2022
Equally appalling is the cozy knowingness with which the Book Review assumes one has bought heaps of expensive books one might read and keeps them piled on that night stand.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2021
The songs had no intellectual take on the emotions they portrayed, no wry knowingness.
From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021
Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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