ignorance
pronunciation
How to pronounce ignorance in British English:
UK [ˈɪɡnərəns]
How to pronounce ignorance in American English:
US [ˈɪɡnərəns]
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- Noun:
- the lack of knowledge or education
Word Origin
- ignorance (n.)
- c. 1200, from Old French ignorance (12c.), from Latin ignorantia "want of knowledge" (see ignorant).
Example
- 1. The tories will not be able to plead ignorance .
- 2. However it does not require universities to promote ignorance .
- 3. But they complain too much : public ignorance isn 't peculiar to science .
- 4. The result was an inferiority complex , in which humiliation was compounded by western ignorance .
- 5. Cigar smoke and ignorance are in the air .