ignorance
See also: Ignorance
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English ignoraunce, ignorance, from From Old French ignorance, from Latin ignōrantia. By surface analysis, ignor(e) + -ance.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭg'nərəns, IPA(key): /ˈɪɡ.nə.ɹəns/
- (General American) enPR: ĭg'nərəns, IPA(key): /ˈɪɡ.nɚ.əns/
Noun
[edit]ignorance (countable and uncountable, plural ignorances)
- The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information.
- Synonyms: blindness, cluelessness, knowledgelessness, unawareness, unknowingness, unknowledge
- She shows total ignorance about the topic at hand.
- 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156:
- There had been the whisky and Perrier in the morning but, in my ignorance of alcoholics then, I could not imagine one whisky harming anyone who was driving in an open car in the rain.
- (religion, in the plural) Sins committed through ignorance.
Usage notes
[edit]- In Roman Catholic theology, vincible or wilful ignorance is such as one might be fairly expected to overcome, hence it can never be an excuse for sin, whether of omission or of commission; while invincible ignorance, which a person cannot help or abate, altogether excuses from guilt.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]condition of being uninformed or uneducated
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French ignorance, borrowed from Latin ignōrantia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ignorance f (plural ignorances)
- ignorance
- 1772, Paul-Henri Thiry (baron d') Holbach, Le Bon-Sens, ou, Idées Naturelles Opposées aux Idées Surnaturelles[1], London: Marc-Michel Rey, →LCCN, →OL, §30, page 22:
- Tous les enfans ſont des athées; ils n’ont aucune idée de Dieu: ſont-ils donc criminels à cauſe de cette ignorance?
- All children are born atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?
Further reading
[edit]- “ignorance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin ignōrantia.
Noun
[edit]ignorance oblique singular, f (oblique plural ignorances, nominative singular ignorance, nominative plural ignorances)
- ignorance (lacking of knowledge; lack of understanding)
- something that one is ignorant of
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (ignorance, supplement)
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