incognition
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A condition of unknowingness; an act of unknowing.
Example Sentences
- "thus did men of rank and opulence, practise like children, for that short fleeting hour of incognition or inebriety, sport little superior to the infantile recreations of the nursery!"
- "In another work he developed his theory of cognition or incognition."
- "nor was the exclusion of the statement that testator could not indicate that he understood what was said to him improper, or that his incognition was the same as when in good health."
- "Hobbes noted that transition is essential incognition."
- "In the absurd novel, the "shock of recognition" which is the mark of the traditional novel is replaced by the "shock of incognition"--the mark of the absurd world and the loss of illusions and light."
- "At the moment there is culpable incognition on the part of Nigerians as regards their political process."
Etymology
From in- + cognition.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: in-