ignorance
//ˈɪɡ.nə.ɹəns//
Forms
- Plural
- ignorances
Definitions
1.The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information.
- She shows total ignorance about the topic at hand.
- 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.
2.Existential blindness.
3.Sins committed through ignorance.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4684
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English ignoraunce, ignorance, from
From Old French ignorance, from Latin ignōrantia. By surface analysis, ignor(e) + -ance.