Word Meanings - UNINTELLIGENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance. Bp. Hall.
Related words: (words related to UNINTELLIGENCE)
- ABSENCE
1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law." - UNWISDOM
Want of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; folly; simplicity; ignorance. Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute. J. - INTELLIGENCER
One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke. - 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. - INTELLIGENCE
1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. 2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser. 3. Information - SELF-IGNORANCE
Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations. - MISINTELLIGENCE
1. Wrong information; misinformation. 2. Disagreement; misunderstanding. - UNINTELLIGENCE
Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance. Bp. Hall.