benightedness

ignorant; nescient; unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprized, unwitting, unweeting, unconscious; witless, weetless; a stranger to; unconversant., uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenglightened; Phillistine; behind the age., shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate; unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-headed; pedantic;, in the dark; benighted, belated; blinded, blindfolded; hoodwinked; misinformed; au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault; at sea (uncertain); caught tripping., unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived; concealed; novel.