Meaning of IGNORANCE
| Pronunciation: | | 'ignuruns
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| | Definition: | | [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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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