unknowledge

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ knowledge.

Noun[edit]

unknowledge (uncountable)

  1. The lack or absence of knowledge.
    • 1990, Stephen F. Frowen, George Lennox Sharman Shackle, Unknowledge and choice in economics:
      It is imagination out of which choice arises, and the nature of choice is inevitably closely linked with the uncertainty, or - to use Shacklean terminology - the unknowledge of the outcome of decision-making.