ignorance
Academic Word List, sublist 6.
About 12.47 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information.
She shows total ignorance about the topic at hand.
- noun Sins committed through ignorance.
- noun Existential blindness.
Similar words
ignorant agnosy illiteracy unawareness incomprehension unfamiliarity incompetence apathy indifference negligence
Often followed by
of and or is in about that as to
Word family
ignorances ignorant ignore ignored ignores ignoring in ignorance of
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