unknowing
Lacking any awareness
Unknowing means lacking knowledge or awareness of something: She was unknowing of the danger she faced.
It often implies innocence rather than ignorance—someone unknowing hasn't been told or hasn't yet discovered.
An unknowing participant in a scheme is unaware of their role.
The noun unknowing refers to a state of not knowing: blissful unknowing.
Lacking necessary knowledge
- unawareLacking knowledge of something
- nescientHaving no knowledge
- unenlightenedLacking awareness or knowledge
- unschooledLacking formal instruction
uneducated · untaught · unlearned · benighted · inexperienced · uninitiated · unversed · unacquainted
Lacking awareness or attention
- heedlessCareless of consequences
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- insensibleUnaware, without feeling
- unperceptiveLacking awareness or insight
inattentive · unseeing · unobservant · unnoticing · unwitting · unsuspecting · blind · deaf
Innocently unsuspecting
- guilelessFree from deceit
- artlessLacking deceit or cunning
- ingenuousInnocently frank and trusting
- unsophisticatedLacking refinement or complexity
childlike · pure · trusting · unwary · credulous · gullible · simple · wide-eyed
Pursuit of divine union
- contemplativeInclined to deep thought
- transcendentExceeding usual boundaries
- ineffableBeyond verbal expression
- nescienceLack of knowledge
unfathomable · mystery · surrender · receptivity · stillness · emptiness
uninformed
Lacking necessary knowledge
- unawareLacking knowledge of something
- nescientHaving no knowledge
- unenlightenedLacking awareness or knowledge
unschooled · uneducated · untaught · unlearned · benighted · inexperienced · uninitiated · unversed · unacquainted · unfamiliar
unmindful
Lacking awareness or attention
- heedlessCareless of consequences
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- insensibleUnaware, without feeling
unperceptive · inattentive · unseeing · unobservant · unnoticing · unwitting · unsuspecting · blind · deaf · oblivious
naive
Innocently unsuspecting
unsophisticated · childlike · pure · trusting · unwary · credulous · gullible · simple · wide-eyed · unsuspecting
mysticism
Pursuit of divine union
- contemplativeInclined to deep thought
- transcendentExceeding usual boundaries
- ineffableBeyond verbal expression
nescience · unfathomable · mystery · surrender · receptivity · stillness · emptiness
- curiosityinquisitiveness, wonder, questioning, inquiry, interest
- ignoranceignorance, unawareness, nescience, in the dark, clueless
- apophatic theologynegative theology, via negativa, unsaying, negation, ineffability
- Christian Mysticismmystical union, divine union, contemplative life, dark night of the soul, mystical states
- inattentiondistracted, spacing, absent-minded, distraction, obliviousness
- mental statesconscious, mood, anxious, memory, aware
unknowingdeliberate
Consciously chosen, not accidental
intentional · knowing · conscious · purposeful · calculated
unknowingworldly
Experienced in practical affairs
worldly-wise · sophisticated · experienced · cosmopolitan · streetwise