knowingness

American  

[noh-ing-nis] / ˈnoʊ ɪŋ nɪs /

noun

1. the quality of being aware, intelligent, well-informed, or intentional; knowing quality.

2. the quality of being shrewd, sharp, or astute, or of trying to seem so in a self-conscious way.

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Example Sentences

It’s campy, it’s cheesy, it’s way more fun than you expect it to be, but there’s a knowingness to the whole endeavor.

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The book resonates with a rustic knowingness that coveys the intricacies and suspicions of tightly bound lives.

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That participatory knowingness is imbued into the cinematography itself, executed by Paul Faltz on 35mm with a look that alternates between shadowy fear and gauzy fantasy.

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Here, Freiman scratches at the difference between knowing and knowingness, and how our blind spots can subsume our personality.

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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.

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