Antonyms for ignorance
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ig-ner-uh ns |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪg nər əns |
Definition of ignorance
Origin :- c.1200, from Old French ignorance (12c.), from Latin ignorantia "want of knowledge" (see ignorant).
- noun unintelligence, inexperience
- But the danger which arises from ignorance in the voter can not be denied.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Their ignorance, with the single exception of horse-flesh, is appalling.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- We are not always marking time on the same spot of ignorance and helplessness.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- He was captivated by her freshness and beauty, her demureness, her ignorance of all things vicious.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Renmark blushed at his own ignorance, but he was never reluctant to admit it.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- I had never heard of such a person, and I blushed for my ignorance.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- You can no more judge of a mind in ignorance than of a plant in darkness.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- I must, after all, get my information from Nuflo, or rest in ignorance.
- Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
- My ignorance that time was of the effect of eating snow on an empty stomach.
- Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
Synonyms for ignorance
- benightedness
- bewilderment
- blindness
- callowness
- crudeness
- darkness
- denseness
- disregard
- dumbness
- empty-headedness
- fog
- half-knowledge
- illiteracy
- incapacity
- incomprehension
- innocence
- inscience
- insensitivity
- lack of education
- mental incapacity
- naiveté
- nescience
- oblivion
- obtuseness
- philistinism
- rawness
- sciolism
- shallowness
- simplicity
- unawareness
- unconsciousness
- uncouthness
- unenlightenment
- unfamiliarity
- unscholarliness
- vagueness
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