ignorance
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- self-ignorance noun
Etymology
Origin of ignorance
First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English word from Latin word ignōrantia. See ignore, -ance
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Example Sentences
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Perry "observed everything about Japan from a position of almost total ignorance of the country", said Jessamyn R. Abel, professor of Asian studies at Penn State University.
From Barron's
In the long term, they rely on ignorance — an erasure of knowledge to leave people believing that there was ever anything different than what is.
From Los Angeles Times
As I reported earlier, however, their efforts to tell it like it is were confounded by their own ignorance.
From Los Angeles Times
American economist Anthony Downs called this “rational ignorance,” and it is made worse by complex laws and bureaucracy that few people fully understand.
From Salon
Those conversations shattered the "prejudice" she carried, an ignorance that "reduces a person entirely to their wound".
From BBC
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