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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“But I think that’s also where I built this armor that I have — this knowingness of why I do what I do. It’s how I have this grit to stick to it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
The book resonates with a rustic knowingness that coveys the intricacies and suspicions of tightly bound lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024
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
The funniest parts of these jokes are in the subtext, how Tomlinson performs knowingness in a way that can be truly clueless.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
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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