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ignorance

Definition for ignorance

noun as in lack of awareness

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Synths aren’t supposed to have a conscience, but they also lack fear as we know it, which is to say the variety that breeds ignorance.

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In retrospect, their ignorance seems incredible—but, then, an entire financial system was premised on their not knowing, and paying them for this talent.

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Maybe it’s “ignorance is bliss,” but I think there’s just too much information that we’re drowning in constantly.

It’s not uninterrupted sleep we seek but the ignorance that makes it possible.

The service of India, he insisted, meant serving "the millions who suffer" and ending "poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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