NOUN
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having knowledge of
his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced
their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive
he had no awareness of his mistakes - shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge
How To Use knowingness In A Sentence
- The songs Serge Gainsbourg wrote for her are sung with a saucy knowingness.
- (undifferenced) intelligence it is quite impossible to ascribe either all-knowingness or limited knowledge; the pradhâna, on the other hand, because consisting of the three gu/n/as, comprises also in its pradhâna state the element of Goodness which is the cause of all-knowingness. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
- He is the possessor of secrets, the man of self-discipline; he has a ‘knowingness’ of culture, politics, business.
- Tragic, because unknowingness is the human condition, and, in the end, there's no getting around it.
- Like a child, this unknowingness will lead to bad behavior, as the child/critic attacks the filmmaker/parent for daring to ask questions for which they will not be given easy answers.
- I haven't been able to suspend that feeling I had in Europe of not-knowingness, a sensation that I enjoyed at the time.
- The translator explained; still there was a look of perplexed unknowingness. Times, Sunday Times
- They are not re-makes or covers exactly, more like new originals, archetypal versions sung with an unknowingness that defies ownership.
- Her work for children is a curious mixture of Victorian grotesquerie and post-modern knowingness: a cast of eccentrics with an equally garrulous and intrusive narrator.
- That ever - enduring, ego - less, omniscient Awareness or Knowingness is the True Self.
