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unknowingly

adv
/ʌnˈnəʊ.ɪŋ.li/

Etymology

From unknowing + -ly.

  1. derived from *ǵneh₃-✻
  2. inherited from *knēaną✻
  3. inherited from *knāan✻
  4. inherited from cnāwan
  5. inherited from knowen
  6. suffixed as knowing — “know + ing”
  7. prefixed as unknowing — “un + knowing”
  8. formed as unknowingly — “unknowing + -ly”

Definitions

  1. Without awareness, without intent.

    • An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unknowingly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA