unknown unknown
Meaning
Noun
- An uncertainty of unknown magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics, possibly with completely unsuspected existence; something that we don't know that we don't know.
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Origin
- Popularized by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, though used much earlier.
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