Part of this know-nothingness is consistent with psychoanalysis' traditional focus on psychic reality.

Such know-nothingness is not Nazism; it's too idea-free even to qualify as fascism-lite.

Should we laud know-nothingness at a critical time in school history, when it is more important than ever to have knowledgeable educators at the helm?

"It represents the know-nothingness that pervades people's reactions when people with disabilities come to their community," Mr. Ellis said.

Irony, parody, quotation, and sly-knowingness (or 'know-nothingness') flourish as substitutes for genuine belief in something greater than oneself.

His own politics were somewhat of a mystery, though I know he was appalled by the vulgarity, xenophobia and know-nothingness of the modern Republican Party.