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.
   uncountable

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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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