unknow

Etymology

un- + know

verb

  1. To undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something.
    To awaken the conscious self to the principle of the whole or Tao one needs to forget oneself, so that in knowing one unknows. 2004, William Joseph Jackson, Heaven's fractal net: retrieving lost visions in the humanities: Volume 1, page 205
    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. 2023-02-03, Roxane Gay, “My Co-Worker’s Baby Photo Gallery Put Me Over the Edge”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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