ignorance

Definitions

1. The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information.
   countable, uncountable
2. A personification of ignorance.
3. The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.
4. Sins committed through ignorance.
   countable, in-plural, uncountable
5. the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or learning.
6. Existential blindness.
   countable, uncountable
7. onkundig بِجَهْلٍ неграмотно ignorantemente neznale unwissend uvidende αδαώς ignorantemente, con ignorancia võhiklikult با بی خبری؛ جاهلانه tietämättömästi par ignorance בְּבוֹרוּת अनभिज्ञता neznajući tudatlanul tanpa menyadari af fáfræði ignorantemente 無知で 무식하게 nemokšiškai nezinoši; nekompetenti dengan jahil onwetenduvitende nieświadomie په ناپوهى، جهالت سره ignorantemente din ignoranţă; în ne­cu­noştinţă de cauză невежественно; по неведению nevedome nevede neobavešteno okunnigt, ovetande อย...
8. onkunde جَهْل невежество ignorância nevědomost die Unwissenheit uvidenhed άγνοιαignorancia võhiklus نادانی؛ بی اطلاعی tietämättömyys ignoranceבורות अज्ञान nepoznavanje tudatlanság kebodohan fáfræði ignoranza 無知 무지 neišmanymas, nežinojimas neizglītotība; nekompetence kejahilan onwetendheid, onkundeuvitenhetignorancja جهل، بې خبرې، ناپوهى: په عربستان كې تر اسلام دمخه زمانه ignorância ignoranţă невежество; неведение nevedomosť nevednost neznanje okunnighet, ovetskap ความไม่รู้ cehalet, bilgisizl...
9. ignorancia.
10. lack of knowledge, information, or education; the state of being ignorant
11. lack of education, stupidity, foolishness, blindness, illiteracy, benightedness, unenlightenment, unintelligence, mental darkness In my ignorance, I had never heard of R and B music. lack of education understanding, knowledge, intelligence, wisdom, insight, enlightenment, comprehension
    lack of education
12. (with of) unawareness of, inexperience of, unfamiliarity with, innocence of, unconsciousness of, greenness about, oblivion about, nescience of (literary) a complete ignorance of non-European historyQuotations"No more; where ignorance is bliss,""'Tis folly to be wise" [Thomas Gray Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College]"If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article" [Tehyi Hsieh Chinese Epigrams Inside Out and Proverbs]"Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion" [Philip ...
    (literary)
13. The condition of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or learning:benightedness, illiteracy, illiterateness, nescience.
14. The condition of being uninformed or unaware:innocence, nescience, obliviousness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unfamiliarity.

Equivalents

Examples

“She shows total ignorance about the topic at hand.”

“The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train⟳, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report⟳ of a Ministry of Transport⟳ Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look⟳ at staff notice⟳ boards.”

“There had been the whisky and Perrier in the morning but, in my ignorance of alcoholics then, I could not imagine⟳ one whisky harming anyone who was driving in an open⟳ car in the rain⟳.”

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