About The Word Ignorance
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Ignorance
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What's The Definition Of Ignorance?
[n] the lack of knowledge or education
Synonyms | Synonyms for Ignorance: Related Terms | Find terms related to Ignorance: amateurishness | amateurism | benightedness | brainlessness | callowness | disaccustomedness | empty-headedness | foolishness | greenness | illiteracy | immaturity | incapacity | ineptitude | inexperience | innocence | irrationality | know-nothingism | lackbrainedness | lackwittedness | low IQ | mental weakness | mindlessness | naivete | nescience | newness to | philistinism | primal stupidity | rawness | reasonlessness | senselessness | simpleness | simplicity | slackmindedness | slackwittedness | unaccustomedness | unacquaintance | unacquaintedness | unawareness | unconsciousness | unconversance | uncouthness | uncultivation | unenlightenment | unexperiencedness | unfamiliarity | unfledgedness | unhabituatedness | unintellectuality | unintelligence | unknowingness | unpracticedness | unprofessionalism | unprofessionalness | unripeness | unsophistication | unwisdom | unwiseness | unwontedness | Urdummheit | witlessness 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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