ignorance

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Alternative forms

• ignoraunce

Etymology

From Old French ignorance.

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Noun

ignorance (plural ignorances)

1. The condition of being uninformed or uneducated. Lack of knowledge or information.

Derived terms

• ignorant
• willful ignorance
• ignorance is bliss

Synonyms

• stupidity
• unawareness
• blindness

Translations

condition of being uninformed or uneducated

Albanian: injorancë (sq) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 無知 (cmn), 无知 (cmn) (wúzhī) Danish: uvidenhed (da) Dutch: onwetendheid (nl) f., ignorantie (nl) f. Finnish: tietämättömyys (fi) French: ignorance (fr) f. German: Ignoranz (de) f. Greek: Ancient: ἄγνοια (agnoia) f. Hungarian: tudatlanság (hu) Icelandic: fáfræði (is) f., fáviska (is) f., vanþekking (is) f., þekkingarleysi (is) n., fákunnátta (is) f., vankunnátta (is) f.

Interlingua: inscientia (ia) Italian: ignoranza (it) f. Japanese: 無知 (ja) (muchi) Kurdish: نه‌زانی (ku) Latin: ignorantia (la) Malagasy: tsifahalalana (mg) Norwegian: uvitenhet (no) Portuguese: ignorância (pt) f. Romanian: ignoranță (ro) f. Russian: невежество (ru) (nevéžestvo) n., неведение (ru) (nevédenije) n. Spanish: ignorancia (es) f. Turkish: cehalet (tr), bilgisizlik (tr) Vietnamese: sự thiếu hiểu biết (vi), sự dốt nát (vi)

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French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin ignorantia.

Noun

ignorance f. (plural ignorances)

1. ignorance

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