Word Meanings - IGNORANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. Book of Common Prayer. Invincible ignorance , ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God.

Additional info about word: IGNORANCE

A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. Book of Common Prayer. Invincible ignorance , ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God. (more info) 1. The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IGNORANCE)

• Inexperience
• Ignorance
• inconversance
• unfamiliarity
• strangeness

Related words: (words related to IGNORANCE)

• IGNORANCE
  A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. Book of Common Prayer. Invincible ignorance , ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God.
• STRANGENESS
  The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
• INEXPERIENCE
  Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth. Failings which are incident to youth and inexperience. Dryden. Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience
• INEXPERIENCED
  Not having experience unskilled. "Inexperienced youth." Cowper.
• SELF-IGNORANCE
  Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations.