"knownothingness" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} knownothingness (uncountable)
  1. Alternative form of know-nothingness Tags: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Alternative form of: know-nothingness
    Sense id: en-knownothingness-en-noun-Cm8FRZSh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "After six weeks' intermission it would reopen in July for four weeks more, and then another long gap would occur, during which the children would fall back into the common pit of knownothingness, from which they were dragged during the brief interval when learning was supposed to be flourishing among them.",
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          "ref": "1907, Paul Carus, The Open Court - Volume 21, page 43",
          "text": "There will be doubting Thomases in any event ; but the writer, with seventy-five years of life behind him, cannot help feeling that he will soon be in a position to know the truth of the matter — or else to be lost in the depths of utter knownothingness.",
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