ignorance
Example Sentences
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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
This combination of deep insight and total ignorance has proved irresistible for many interested in the ancient world.
My total ignorance of military maneuvers in no way detracts from my enjoyment and in some ways enhances it.
“It is high time . . . that we take our ignorance more seriously,” Hayek memorably observed.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
