Synonyms for ignorance
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Noun
1. Unawareness — the condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information
unawareness, cluelessness, blindness, dark, nescience, unknowingness, unknowledge, knowledgelessness rare
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Definitions
- n. 1
The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information.
She shows total ignorance about the topic at hand.
Related words
- Word family
- ignorant
- Phrases
- wilful ignorance vincible ignorance
Forms
- Plural
- ignorances → unawarenesses, blindnesses, darks, nesciences…
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Ignorance is relative; illiteracy is absolute; we have statistics of illiteracy; no statistics of ignorance are possible.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- blindness The worst kind of blindness is choosing not to see.
- cluelessness The look on her face was one of utter cluelessness.
- inexperience You must make allowance for his inexperience.
- illiteracy The percentage of illiteracy in that country is 36%.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| ignorance | steady | |
| blindness | steady | |
| cluelessness | steady | |
| unawareness | steady | |
| nescience | falling | |
| inexperience | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- dark1
- 8 letters
- unwisdom
- 9 letters
- blindness2, nescience
- 10 letters
- illiteracy5
- 11 letters
- unawareness, unknowledge
- 12 letters
- inexperience5, cluelessness
- 13 letters
- unknowingness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (blindness2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- ignorance
- Italiano
- ignoranza
- Deutsch
- Unwissenheit