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Unknown vs Unknowing - What's the difference?

unknown | unknowing |

As adjectives the difference between unknown and unknowing

is that unknown is not known; unidentified; not well known while unknowing is without knowing; ignorant.

As a noun unknown

is a variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.

unknown

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not known; unidentified; not well known.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown , induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}

    Synonyms

    * anonymous * unfamiliar * uncharted * undiscovered * unexplored * unidentified * unnamed * unrecognized * unrevealed * unascertained * obscure * unsung

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (algebra) A variable (usually x'', ''y'' or ''z ) whose value is to be found.
  • Any fact or place about which nothing is known (as in the phrase "into the unknown").
  • A person of no identity; a nonentity
  • * 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
    • How does it feel
    To be on your own
    With no direction home
    Like a complete unknown
    Like a rolling stone?

    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.