knowingness

[noh-ing-nis]

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.

Example Sentences

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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But my favorite member of the entourage is Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who brings a knowingness and a killer sense of comic timing to the role of Destiny, one of Jocelyn’s managers.

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