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ignorance
noun as in lack of knowledge
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benightedness, darkness, lack of education, sciolism, shallowness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity
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callowness, crudeness, empty-headedness, half-knowledge, ineducation, inscience, naïveté, rawness, simplicity, uncouthness
noun as in lack of awareness
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This delightful compilation suggests that even those in the world of architecture have been leaning on Vitruvius for knowledge about the Roman architectural world through some combination of ignorance and laziness.
The “Monkey King” premiere took place the day after the final performance of Matthew Ozawa’s thoughtful new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal,” a very different tale about ignorance and enlightenment.
“Don’t pay that fool any mind. Even gods can succumb to the disease of ignorance.”
But this obsession is so clouded by ignorance and false assumptions that the nature and direction of the relationship is never straightforward.
Synths aren’t supposed to have a conscience, but they also lack fear as we know it, which is to say the variety that breeds ignorance.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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