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noun

  1. Lack of specific knowledge

    unawareness, unconsciousness, unfamiliarity, incomprehension, bewilderment, incapacity, inexperience, simplicity, disregard, obliviousness, insensitivity, sciolism, nescience, shallowness, superficiality, confusion, fog, vagueness, half-knowledge, a little learning, no more than a tyro's background, greenness; see also sense 2, confusion 2.

    Antonyms ability*, learning, erudition.

  2. Lack of general knowledge

    illiteracy, unenlightenment, mental incapacity, denseness, dumbness, empty-headedness, crudeness, barbarism, philistinism, vulgarity, obtuseness, unfamiliarity, unintelligence, rawness, benightedness, superstition, darkness, blindness, simplicity, innocence, stolidity, unscholarliness, functional illiteracy, know-nothingism, lack of learning, lack of education, lack of erudition, lack of information; see also sense 1, stupidity 1.

    Antonyms knowledge*, acquaintance, understanding.

See ignorance in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


noun
  1. The condition of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or learning:

    benightedness, illiteracy, illiterateness, nescience. See knowledge
  2. The condition of being uninformed or unaware:

    innocence, nescience, obliviousness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unfamiliarity. See knowledge

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