unknow

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English

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"To awaken the conscious self to the principle of the whole or Tao one needs to forget oneself, so that in knowing one unknows."
"You clearly care about this employee’s well-being and want to be supportive. Even though you can’t unknow what you saw on TikTok, this is not your problem to solve."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English know English unknow From un- + know.

unknows (present, singular) unknowing (participle, present) unknew (past) unknown (participle, past)

unlearn

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