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Ignorance

Ignorance Meaning & Definition
Ignorance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ignorance?

[n] the lack of knowledge or education

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See Also | cognitive content | content | ignorantness | illiteracy | inexperience | mental object | nescience | unenlightenment | unknowing | unknowingness

Ignorance In Webster's Dictionary

\Ig"no*rance\, n. [F., fr. L. ignorantia.] 1. The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. --Shak. 2. (Theol.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. --Book of Common Prayer. {Invincible ignorance} (Theol.), ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God.

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