incognition

plural incognitions

1. human sciencesA condition of unknowingness; an act of unknowing.

   Hobbes noted that transition is essential incognition.

   1927, Krause Reprint Limited, Proceedings, page 251

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   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!

   1826, William Child Green, The Woodland Family Or The Sons of Error and Daughters of Simplicity, page 108

   In another work he developed his theory of cognition or incognition.

   1889, Albert Schwegler, Handbook of the History of Philosophy, page 35

   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.

   1912, Daniel Coblens Joseph, Contest of Wills, page 193

   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.

   1967, American Literature Abstracts (publisher), American Literature Abstracts - Volumes 1-2, page 304

   At the moment there is culpable incognition on the part of Nigerians as regards their political process.

   1977, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Department of Political Science (contributor), Workshop on the Draft Constitution for Nigeria (20th-21st January '77) : [proceedings]