| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unintelligence, inexperience |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
| Antonyms: | competence, cultivation, education, experience, intelligence, knowledge, literacy, talent, wisdom |
| Concept: | Ignorance. |
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-nouns
ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse; unacquaintance; unconsciousness; darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity., unknown quantities, x, y, z., sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground; dark ages., [Imperfect knowledge] smattering, sciolism, glimmering; bewilderment (uncertainty); incapacity., [Affectation of knowledge] pedantry; charlatanry, charlatism; Philister, Philistine.
-verbs
be ignorant; not know; know not, know not what, know nothing of; have no idea, have no notion, have no conception; not have the remotest idea; not know chalk from cheese., ignore, be blind to; keep in ignorance (conceal)., see through a glass darkly; have a film over the eyes, have a glimmering; wonder whether; not know what to make of (unintelligibility); not pretend to take upon, not take upon one self to say.
-adjectives
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.
-adverbs
ignorantly; unawares; for anything, for aught one knows; not that one knows.
-phrases
"ignorance never settles a question" [Disraeli]; quantum animis erroris inest! [Ovid]; "small Latin and less Greek" [B. Jonson]; "that unlettered small-knowing soul" [Love's Labor's Lost]; "there is no darkness but
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| Antonyms: | knowledge |
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| Main Entry: | awkwardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clumsiness; inelegance |
| Synonyms: | amateurishness, artlessness, boorishness, cloddishness, coarseness, crudeness, gawkiness, gracelessness, greenness, ignorance, inability, incompetence, ineptitude, ineptness, inexpertness, maladroitness, oafishness, rudeness, tactlessness, uncoordination, uncouthness, ungainliness, unskillfulness |
| Antonyms: | artfulness, dexterity, elegance, grace, handiness, skill |
| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmlessness, naiveté |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, frankness, freshness, guilelessness, gullibility, ignorance, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, lack, nescience, plainness, purity, simplicity, sincerity, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | experience, impurity, knowledge, treacherousness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | adulthood, maturity |
| Main Entry: | immaturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inexperience |
| Synonyms: | babyishness, callowness, childish behavior, childishness, greenness, ignorance, imperfection, incompleteness, infantilism, puerility, rawness |
| Main Entry: | stupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness of mind |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, apathy, asininity, battiness, brainlessness, doltishness, fatuity, fatuousness, feeble-mindedness, idiocy, ignorance, imbecility, imprudence, incapacity, ineptitude, injudiciousness, insensibility, lunacy, nitwittedness, nonsense, obtuseness, puerility, shallowness, silliness, simplicity, slowness, slowness, sluggishness, stolidity, stupefaction, stupidness, stupor, thick-headedness, weak-mindedness, weakness |
| Antonyms: | intelligence, judgment, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, juvenility, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inexperience |
| Synonyms: | amateur, callowness, ignorance, immaturity, ineptness, inexpertness, innocence, newness, rawness, youth |