Meaning of know-nothingness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state of knowing nothing; ignorance.
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2. A perverse admiration or embrace of ignorance.
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Examples

“Anxious, as if I knew even then in my infant know-nothingness that my life would be torn apart by people who I'm sure meant nothing by it but were instead pursuing their own lives and their own hearts and dreams and beliefs and aspirations and horizons, much like I would and am, yet somehow I am tossed from this family of mine because I chose to do what my heart suggested and yearned for, for which a reason there is no better.”

“More particularly agnosticism is an attitude of “know-nothingness”.”

“Anxiety is a state of emotional know-nothingness in which the individual succumbs to helplessness.”

“There was a growing spirit of "Know-nothingness" and avoidance of foreign things in the town and the German community was, at the same time, growing stronger in its determination to protect its own rights.”

“Know-nothingness is this time's prime feature: a new know-nothingness, a greater know-nothingness, even a new order, even neo-fascism.”

“The new know-nothingness presents itself as a perverse reversal of Bacon's notorious declaration, “knowledge is power.””

“Furthermore, sociologists Paul DiMaggio, Richard A. Peterson, and Jack Esco Jr. contended that, while such an interpretation of country music required a dismissal of more socially progressive songs by some of the same artists, songs such as “Okie from Muskogee” wreaked untold havoc on country music by leading “popular commentators to see all country music as rightwing know-nothingness."”

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