ignorance

noun

1 his ignorance of economics:

incomprehension, unawareness, unconsciousness, inexperience, innocence;

unfamiliarity with, lack of enlightenment about, lack of knowledge about, lack of information about;

informal cluelessness;

literary nescience.

▷antonyms knowledge, education.

2 their attitudes are based on ignorance and fear:

lack of knowledge, lack of education;

unenlightenment, benightedness;

lack of intelligence, unintelligence, stupidity, foolishness, idiocy, denseness, brainlessness, mindlessness, slow-wittedness;

informal thickness, dimness, dumbness, dopiness, doziness.

▷antonyms knowledge, education.

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