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Knowingness

noun

Having knowledge of. Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, cognizance, consciousness. "His sudden consciousness of the problem he faced" , "Their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive"

Shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge.

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"Knowingness" Quotes from Famous Books

... wisdom as Theodore Dreiser is, he almost wholly lacks the dexterous knowingness which has marked the mass of fiction in the age of O. Henry. Not only has Mr. Dreiser never allowed any one else to make up his mind for him regarding the significance and aims and obligations of mankind but he has never made up his mind himself. A large dubitancy ...

— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren

... up things a Shakespeare would admire at their lowest possible sale value. A slow whiff of smoke from a corner of the sneering mouth, an air of intense knowingness, as much as to say, "You may depend upon me—I've been behind the scenes. All this is got up, you know; stage effect in front, pasteboard at ...

— Amaryllis at the Fair • Richard Jefferies

... it a good deal to Tom as I sat before my pantry fire of an evening; and he used to leap up in my lap and sit and look up at me with his big eyes, which were as full of knowingness at those times as they were stupid and slit-like at others. He was a great favourite of mine was Tom, and had been ever since I found him, a half-starved kitten in the area, and took him in and fed him till he grew up ...

— Begumbagh - A Tale of the Indian Mutiny • George Manville Fenn

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