Meaning & use
Knowingness
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The quality of being knowing, especially a self-aware or worldly sophistication, sometimes tinged with irony or cynicism.
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The novel's narrator speaks with a wry knowingness that hints she understands more than she lets on.
Critics praised the film's knowingness about its own genre clichés.
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"Knowingness" is used often in literary and film criticism to describe a self-aware, sometimes ironic tone or attitude.
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