ignorance
- 1The state of not knowing things because you never learned them or were never told.
Like trying to find your way around a new city without a map.
His ignorance of the rules cost him the game.
She admitted her ignorance about computers and asked a friend for help.
Similarunawareness, cluelessness, unknowingness
Oppositeknowledge, awareness, understanding, enlightenment
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- 2Not being able to see or understand the deepest truth about life and the world.
Like living your whole life in a dark room and believing that is all there is.
The teacher said our suffering comes from ignorance, not from the world itself.
He spent years in meditation, hoping to free himself from ignorance.
Oppositeenlightenment, awakening, wisdom, insight
- 3In religion, wrong acts that people do because they do not know any better.
The priest taught that God forgives ignorance more readily than willful sin.
In his evening prayers, he asked forgiveness for his ignorance as well as his deliberate wrongs.
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Origin
It came through Old French from Latin "ignorantia," and is linked to the word "ignore."