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  • noun The state of not knowing.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ knowledge

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Examples

  • The Seduction of Unreason describes as a "subconscious 'will to nonknowledge': a desire to keep at bay an awareness of unsettling historical complicities, facts, and events."

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