Synonyms for ignorance
ˈɪg nər ənsig·no·rance

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1. ignorancenoun

   Synonyms:
   unawareness, blindness

2. Ignorancenoun

   A personification of ignorance.

   Synonyms:
   blindness, unawareness

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1. ignorance

   Synonyms:
   ignoring, inexperience, unfamiliarity

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

Princeton's WordNet

1. ignorancenoun

   the lack of knowledge or education

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Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. lack of knowledge

   Submitted by rinat on September 9, 2019  

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1. ignorancenoun

   Synonyms:
   illiteracy, nescience, darkness, blindness, want of knowledge

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1. ignorancenoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "ignorance":

   ignorant, unawareness, disregard, dark, unfamiliarity

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1. Andy Tian:

   I would use the phrase 'convergence of ignorance and complacency', ignorance on the side of Apple, complacency on the side of Chinese companies.

2. The ISIS spokesman:

   People should really think about the case of James Foley, james Foley did not get killed because we started the battle. James Foley got killed because of the ignorance of James Foley government that did not give James Foley any help.

3. 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.

4. Jonathan Bernstein:

   Takata's approach reflects ignorance or denial of the reality that the court of public opinion can put you out of business long before a court of law decides about liability.

5. Sankara:

   The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.