IGNORANCE

ignorance

(noun) the lack of knowledge or education

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Ignorance

A personification of ignorance.

Anagrams

• ear coning, enorganic, garcinone

Etymology

Noun

ignorance (countable and uncountable, plural ignorances)

The condition of being uninformed or uneducated. Lack of knowledge or information.

Synonyms: blindness, cluelessness, knowledgelessness, unawareness, unknowingness, unknowledge

(religion, in the plural) Sins committed through ignorance.

Usage notes

• In Roman Catholic theology, vincible or wilful ignorance is such as one might be fairly expected to overcome, hence it can never be an excuse for sin, whether of omission or of commission; while invincible ignorance, which a person cannot help or abate, altogether excuses from guilt.

Anagrams

• ear coning, enorganic, garcinone

Source: Wiktionary


Ig"no*rance, n. Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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THOUGHTFULLY

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