| 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 |
| Main Entry: | illiterateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | nescience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, illiterateness, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, oblivion, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | obliviousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | unawareness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| 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, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | unconsciousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| 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, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | unfamiliarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| 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, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unscholarliness, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | ignorance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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a stranger to, absent, addle, anile, apish, asinine, at fault, at sea, at the end of his tether, babbling, babish, babyish, beef, beetle, belated, benighted, bewildered, bigoted, blatant, blinded, blindfold, blockish, blunder, blunt, boeotic, bookless, bovine, brainless, caught tripping, childish, childlike, clod, dansey, dimsighted, diverted, doltish, driveling, dull, dull, dull as a beetle, eccentric, empty, empty, fat, fat, feeble, frivolous, giddy, glaikit, gratuitous, green, gross, half, having no head, heavy, hoodwinked, idiotic, idle, ignorant, ill, ill, ill, impalpable, improper, in the dark, inapprehensible, inapt, incogitable, incogitant, inconsiderate, inconsistent, indocible, inept, inexpedient, infantile, infantine, injudicious, insensate, insipient, insulse, irrational, lack, maggoty, misinformed, muddle, narrow, nonsensical, not bright, not to be thought of, novel, obtuse, off one's mind, parviscient, pedantic, philistine, pig, puerile, puzzle, reasonless, ridiculous, rude, sappy, senseless, shallow, shallow, short, silly, simple, sleeveless, sottish, spoony, stolid, stupid, superficial, thick, unacquainted, unapprehended, unapprized, unascertained, unaware, unbookish, unconscious, unconsidered, unconversant, uncultivated, undiscerning, undreamt of, uneducated, unendowed with reason, unenlightened, unexplained, unexplored, ungifted, unguided, unheard of, unideal, uninformed, uninitiated, uninstructed, unintellectual, unintelligent, uninvestigated, unknowing, unknown, unlearned, unlettered, unoccupied, unperceived, unphilosophical, unread, unreasonable, unschooled, untaught, unteachable, unthinking, unthought of, untutored, unversed, unweeting, unwise, unwitting, useless, vacant, vacuous, wanting, wantwit, weak, weak, weak in the upper story, weetless, without reason, witless
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| 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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