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ignorance
noun as in lack of knowledge
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benightedness, darkness, lack of education, sciolism, shallowness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity
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callowness, crudeness, empty-headedness, half-knowledge, ineducation, inscience, naïveté, rawness, simplicity, uncouthness
noun as in lack of awareness
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After a certain point, a willful, proud ignorance masquerading as superior wisdom becomes a social menace and a stigma of poor citizenship.
Does this then create a precedent for next season when racers can just run wide and claim ignorance?
"The shame of being back where we started, ignorance and lack of activity."
And for those of us who watch compulsively and wouldn’t know a dossier from a dog pound, ignorance is bliss.
The story appealed to Ms. Orlean in part because of her own ignorance about the subject.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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