Ignorance
['ɪgn(ə)r(ə)ns] or ['ɪɡnərəns]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Illiteracy, nescience, darkness, blindness, want of knowledge.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See KNOWLEDGE]
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Examples
- He made sundials, water clocks, and similar apparatus, a little last gleam of experimental science in the gathering ignorance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A commanding general cannot base his actions upon either absolute certainty or absolute ignorance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And the ignorance of people about here is stupendous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What can I do more than tell you all I know, and acknowledge my ignorance of all I don't know! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In the days of ignorance there had been an extraordinary willingness to believe the Catholic priesthood good and wise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This gentleman, as may be imagined, was not kept long in ignorance of the secret. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- My one great anxiety is that Rachel should be kept in ignorance of the truth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Once tonight we have been impeded by the ignorance of the anarchists. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He could only plead an ignorance of his own heart, and a mistaken confidence in the force of his engagement. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Take courage, sir; you are not singular in your ignorance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And must not an animal be a lover of learning who determines what he likes and dislikes by the test of knowledge and ignorance? Plato. The Republic.
- It was not the bad manners of ignorance; it was the wilful bad manners arising from deep offence. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I speak, of course, in ignorance of the details, and they may be unsuitable on both sides. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- How there were more years; more impertinences, ignorances, and insults. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- How the impertinences, ignorances, and insults went through the multiplication table. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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