Meaning of incognition | Babel Free

Definitions

A condition of unknowingness; an act of unknowing.

Examples

“thus did men of rank and opulence, practise like children, for that short fleeting hour of incognition or inebriety, sport little superior to the infantile recreations of the nursery!”

“In another work he developed his theory of cognition or incognition.”

“nor was the exclusion of the statement that testator could not indicate that he understood what was said to him improper, or that his incognition was the same as when in good health.”

“Hobbes noted that transition is essential incognition.”

“In the absurd novel, the "shock of recognition" which is the mark of the traditional novel is replaced by the "shock of incognition"--the mark of the absurd world and the loss of illusions and light.”

“At the moment there is culpable incognition on the part of Nigerians as regards their political process.”

“Fear paralyzes the minds of the Welsh Fusiliers: "fear steadies to dumb incognition, so that when they give the order to move upward to align with "A" hugged already just under the lip of the acclivity”

“Those circumstances may help us understand what was negative-the incognition, the indifference, and the neglect-in Australian attitudes and conduct over a full century.”

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