know-nothingness

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The state of knowing nothing

   The state of knowing nothing; ignorance.

   • More particularly agnosticism is an attitude of “know-nothingness”.
   • Anxiety is a state of emotional know-nothingness in which the individual succumbs to helplessness.
2. 2

   A perverse admiration or embrace of ignorance.

   • 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.”

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