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Unaware vs Unknowing - What's the difference?

unaware | unknowing |

As adjectives the difference between unaware and unknowing

is that unaware is not aware or informed; lacking knowledge while unknowing is without knowing; ignorant.

unaware

English

Adjective

(-)
  • not aware or informed; lacking knowledge
    • I'm unaware of the answer to that question.
    Luckily, she was unaware that I'd spent the last five years in prison.
  • Not noticing; paying no heed; thoughtless; inattentive.
    • (Jonathan Swift)

    Derived terms

    * unawares adverb

    unknowing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without knowing; ignorant.
  • (obsolete) Unknown, unbeknownst ((to) someone).
  • *1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke II:
  • *:And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned home, the chylde Jesus boode styll in hierusalem, vnknowinge to his father and mother.