Meaning

1 senses
  1. Certainties of known magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics; something that we know that we know.

Origin

Popularized by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, though used much earlier.

Popularized by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, though used much earlier.

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Forms

plural: known knowns
Singularknown known
Pluralknown knowns

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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