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.
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Showalter has assembled the perfect trio of actors for the material, because all three have a knowingness about the way they play the duality of their characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“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
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.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
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
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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