Ignorance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ig=no=rance

CIDE DICTIONARY

Ignorance, n. [F., fr. L. ignorantia.].

•  The condition of being ignorant; the lack of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.  [1913 Webster]

  "Ignorance is the curse of God,
  Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."  [1913 Webster]
•  A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.  Book of Common Prayer.  [1913 Webster]

Invincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Ignorance, n. (often foll. by of) lack of knowledge (about a thing).

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L ignorantia (as IGNORANT)

THESAURUS

Ignorance

Urdummheit, 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, witlessness

ROGET THESAURUS

Ignorance

Misjudgment

N misjudgment, obliquity of judgment, miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception, hasty conclusion, prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice, foregone conclusion, prenotion, prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension, presumption, assumption, presentiment, fixed idea, preconceived idea, id_ee fixe, mentis gratissimus error, fool's paradise, esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship, clannishness, prestige, bias, bigotry, warp, twist, hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye, one-sided views, one-track mind, partial views, narrow views, confined views, superficial views, one- sided ideas, partial ideas, narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided conceptions, partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions, superficial conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow notions, confined notions, superficial notions, narrow mind, bigotry, odium theologicum, pedantry, hypercriticism, doctrinaire, overestimation, underestimation, ignorance, erroneous assumptions, erroneous data, mistaken assumptions, incorrect assumptions (error), misjudging, ill-judging, wrong-headed, prejudiced, jaundiced, shortsighted, purblind, partial, one-sided, superficial, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, mean-spirited, confined, illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entete, positive, dogmatic, conceited, opinative, opiniative, opinioned, opinionate, opinionative, opinionated, self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opini=atre, bigoted, crotchety, fussy, impracticable, unreasonable, stupid credulous, warped, misjudged, ex parte, nothing like leather, the wish the father to the thought, wishful thinking, unshakable conviction, my mind is made up - don't bother me with the fact.

Ignorance

N ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse, unfamiliarity, unacquaintance, unconsciousness, darkness, blindness, incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity, unknown quantities, x, y, z, sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground, dark ages, smattering, sciolism, glimmering, dilettantism, bewilderment, incapacity, pedantry, charlatanry, charlatism, Philister, Philistine, ignorant, nescient, unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised, unapprized, unwitting, unweeting, unconscious, witless, weetless, a stranger to, unconversant, uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened, Philistine, behind the age, shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate, unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish, empty-headed, dizzy, wooly-headed, pedantic, in the dark, benighted, belated, blinded, blindfolded, hoodwinked, misinformed, au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault, at sea, caught tripping, unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived, concealed, novel, ignorantly, unawares, for anything, for aught one knows, not that one knows, Int, God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows, ignorance never settles a question, quantum animis erroris inest!, small Latin and less Greek, that unlettered small-knowing soul, there is no darkness but ignorance.