“knowingness”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

knowingness

释义

knowingness|ˈnəʊɪŋnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being knowing.
1. The quality or state of being intelligent or well-informed; cleverness, cunning, shrewdness, appearance or air of shrewdness; also affectation of knowing, sciolism.
1727Bailey vol. II, Knowingness, knowledge.1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., A thief..who..affects a knowingness in his air and conversation.1877T. A. Trollope Peep beh. Sc. at Rome iv. 41 The glossy cylindrical hat..stuck with somewhat cynical knowingness over his left ear.
2. The state of being conscious, consciousness. rare.
1839Carlyle Chartism. v. 138 It grows to be the universal belief, sole accredited knowingness.1841L. Hunt Seer ii. (1864) 28 We are not conscious of the reason: that is to say, we do not feel it with knowingness.

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