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Unknowing vs Unwitting - What's the difference?

unknowing | unwitting |

As adjectives the difference between unknowing and unwitting

is that unknowing is without knowing; ignorant while unwitting is unaware or uninformed.

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.
  • unwitting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • unaware or uninformed
  • unintentional
  • * (transl.) 4th century BC ,
  • Some people, apparently, have thought about it and reached the conclusion that every case of being misinformed is unwitting .

    Antonyms

    * (unaware or uninformed) cognizant * (unintentional) deliberate

    Derived terms

    *unwittingly *unwittingness