Antonyms for ignorance
ˈɪg nər ənsig·no·rance

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.3 / 4 votes

1. ignorancenoun

   Synonyms:
   unawareness, blindness

2. Ignorancenoun

   A personification of ignorance.

   Synonyms:
   blindness, unawareness

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.7 / 11 votes

1. ignorance

   Antonyms:
   acquaintance, association, companionship, experience, familiarity, fellowship, friendship, intimacy, knowledge

   Synonyms:
   ignoring, inexperience, unfamiliarity

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Princeton's WordNet

1. ignorancenoun

   the lack of knowledge or education

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. ignorancenoun

   Synonyms:
   illiteracy, inerudition, unenlightenment, nescience, quackery, charlatanry

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. brilliance

   Submitted by anonymous on May 7, 2020  

2. metacognition

   metacognition is self-awareness, so self-ignorance would be the antonym.

   Submitted by anonymous on November 21, 2019  

How to use ignorance in a sentence?

1. Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918):

   The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

2. Ry Cooder:

   If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.

3. John Schlossberg:

   Whether Irish or Chinese, Jewish, Japanese or Latino, our newest neighbors have all too often been greeted by a chorus of ignorance.

4. Dudley Sharp:

   So often, it seems, that willful ignorance is, now, the default position for absolute certainty. Dudley Sharp, 2019

5. Izaak Walton:

   So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

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