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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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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".
If almost any other manager admitted such blissful ignorance, people would think they were at it.
After a certain point, a willful, proud ignorance masquerading as superior wisdom becomes a social menace and a stigma of poor citizenship.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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