unknowing adjective 2noun 1forms 3 adjective2 •Without knowing; ignorant. •(no longer used) Unknown, unbeknownst (to someone).And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned home, the chylde Jesus boode styll in hierusalem, vnknowinge to his father and mother. — 1526 noun1 •Absence of knowledge; ignorance of something.Only later in the performance do we get that diegetically earlier moment, the moment when still earlier questions, fears, knowings, and unknowings congeal into the medical diagnosis of “positive.” — 2011 formsunknowings · more unknowing · most unknowing