'Ignorance' definitions:
Definition of 'ignorance'
(from WordNet)
noun
The lack of knowledge or education
Definition of 'Ignorance'
From: GCIDE
- Ignorance \Ig"no*rance\, n. [F., fr. L. ignorantia.]
- 1. 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. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Invincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ignorance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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