unknownness
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a word derived from
unknown.
unknownadjectivenot known; not within the range of one's knowledge, experience, or understanding; strange; unfamiliar.
Example Sentences
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An unknownness enveloped them, as if they were playing a game, as if they were draped in cloth or lost in old rooms.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2019
I could feel the bigness of it and the unknownness of it and a pent-up tension—whether of tears or anger, I couldn't tell.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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