know-nothingness

noun2

1. •
   The state of knowing nothing; ignorance.

   • More particularly agnosticism is an attitude of “know-nothingness”. — 2008
2. •
   A perverse admiration or embrace of ignorance.

   • Know-nothingness is this time's prime feature: a new know-nothingness, a greater know-nothingness, even a new order, even neo-fascism. — 1991