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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ignorance \Ig"no*rance\, noun [F., fr. L. ignorantia.]
1. The condition of being ignorant; the lack of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.
Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. --Shak.
2. (Theol.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. --Book of Common Prayer.
{Invincible ignorance} (Theol.), ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ignorance
noun: the lack of knowledge or education
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "ignorance": Urdummheit, amateurishness, amateurism, benightedness, brainlessness, callowness, disaccustomedness, empty-headedness, foolishness, greenness, illiteracy, immaturity, incapacity, ineptitude, inexperience, innocence, irrationality, know-nothingism, lackbrainedness, lackwittedness, low IQ, mental weakness, mindlessness, naivete, nescience, newness to, philistinism, primal stupidity, rawness, reasonlessness, senselessness, simpleness, simplicity, slackmindedness, slackwittedness, unaccustomedness, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unconversance, uncouthness, uncultivation, unenlightenment, unexperiencedness, unfamiliarity, unfledgedness, unhabituatedness, unintellectuality, unintelligence, unknowingness, unpracticedness, unprofessionalism, unprofessionalness, unripeness, unsophistication, unwisdom, unwiseness, unwontedness, witlessness
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