Definition for Ignorance:

• the lack of knowledge or education

Synonyms for Ignorance:

• n.

  •awkwardness (noun)
  • coarseness,
  • ineptitude,
  • inability,
  • artlessness,
  • incompetence,
  • rudeness,
  • greenness.
  •greenness (noun)
  • juvenility,
  • newness,
  • spring,
  • amateur.
  •ignorance (noun)
  • insensitivity,
  • disregard,
  • bewilderment,
  • unenlightenment,
  • mindlessness,
  • Inscience,
  • philistinism,
  • incapacity,
  • lack of education,
  • blindness,
  • foolishness,
  • illiteracy,
  • Sciolism,
  • simpleness,
  • oblivion,
  • vagueness,
  • empty-headedness,
  • darkness,
  • unscholarliness,
  • simplicity,
  • mental incapacity,
  • half-knowledge,
  • denseness,
  • dumbness.
  •immaturity (noun)
  • imperfection.
  •stupidity (noun)
  • stolidity,
  • weakness,
  • stupor,
  • stupefaction,
  • silliness,
  • nonsense,
  • apathy,
  • absurdity,
  • imprudence,
  • slowness,
  • lunacy,
  • sluggishness,
  • idiocy,
  • fatuity,
  • insensibility,
  • imbecility.
  •youth (noun)
  • adolescence,
  • awkward age,
  • jejuneness,
  • youthfulness,
  • jejunity,
  • juvenescence,
  • teens,
  • tender age,
  • girlhoods,
  • prime,
  • puberty,
  • salad days,
  • boyhood,
  • youngness,
  • girlhood,
  • minority,
  • childhood,
  • springtime of life,
  • springtide,
  • bloom.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • obliviousness,
  • vacuity,
  • benightedness,
  • incomprehension,
  • the absurd,
  • unawareness,
  • unfamiliarity,
  • nescience,
  • illiterateness,
  • unconsciousness.
  •
  • ability,
  • myopia,
  • indiscretion.
  •
  • innocence,
  • precipitation,
  • vacancy,
  • culture.

Paraphrases for Ignorance:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    less.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Lacunae, negligence, defiance, lack, awareness, breach, prejudice, contempt, denial.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    incomprehension, disregard, indifference, ignorant, unawareness, unfamiliarity, misunderstanding, incompetence, ignore, dark, knowledge.

Antonyms for Ignorance:

• n.

  • awkwardness
    elegance, grace, skill, artfulness, handiness, dexterity.
  • ignorance
    cultivation, education, knowledge, intelligence, talent, literacy, wisdom, experience, competence.
  • innocence
    impurity, treacherousness, wildness.
  • stupidity
    judgment.
  • youth
    adulthood, maturity.
  • Other antonyms:
    instruction, acquaintance, know-how, scholarship, enlightenment, awareness, erudition, cognizance, sophistication, training, learning.

Ignorance Sentence Examples:

• To confess ignorance is to lose respect with the ignorant who would appear to know.

• He knew that it was on account of the ignorance of the people of the Word that they fell so easily into sin.

Hypernym for Ignorance:

• n.

  • cognition
    inexperience, nescience, unknowing, illiteracy, ignorantness, unknowingness, unenlightenment, Rawness.

Hyponym for Ignorance:

• n.

  • cognition
    cognitive content, mental object, content.