ignorance
[noun]
Synonyms: unawareness, inexperience, innocence, unconsciousness, unfamiliarity

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Contrasted words: education, enlightenment, erudition, learning, literacy, acquaintance, acquaintanceship, experience, awareness, familiarity, knowledgeableness
Related Words: callowness, greenness, inexperience, naiveté, rawness, simpleness, simplicity, uncouthness, uncultivation, unsophistication, empty-headedness, unintelligence, witlessness, know-nothingism, philistinism

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

ig‧no‧rance AC /ˈɪɡnərəns/ noun [uncountable]
[Word Family: noun: ignorance; adverb: ignorantly; adjective: ignorant]

1. lack of knowledge or information about something:
Excuse my ignorance, but how does it actually work?
ignorance of
our ignorance of the true situation
in ignorance
I would have remained in ignorance if Shaun hadn’t mentioned it.
ignorance about
public fear and ignorance about AIDS

2. ignorance is bliss used to say that if you do not know about a problem, you cannot worry about it

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

ignorance
noun
ADJ. complete, total | remarkable | widespread | blissful
VERB + IGNORANCE betray, show I tried not to betray my ignorance. He showed a remarkable ignorance of the facts.
admit, confess, plead I had to confess my ignorance. He pleaded ignorance of any wrongdoing.
live in, remain in The sisters lived in total ignorance of each other.
keep sb in He was kept in ignorance of his true identity.
be based on These attitudes are based on ignorance and fear.
PREP. due to ~ mistakes due to ignorance
in ~ (of) She remained in blissful ignorance of these events.
through ~ Many lives are lost through ignorance.
~ about There is still widespread ignorance about this disease.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲