ignorance

CEFRB2

/ˈɪɡ.nə.ɹəns/

noun

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Examples

If you think education is expensive, wait till you see what ignorance costs you.
They fought a long battle against prejudice and ignorance.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Sins committed through ignorance.
The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information.

In context

You should be ashamed of your ignorance.
She shows total ignorance about the topic at hand.
There had been the whisky and Perrier in the morning but, in my ignorance of alcoholics then, I could not imagine one whisky harming anyone who was driving in an open car in the rain.

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There had been the whisky and Perrier in the morning but, in my ignorance of alcoholics then, I could not imagine one whisky harming anyone who was driving in an open car in the rain.
1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156
The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638

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From Middle English ignoraunce, ignorance, from From Old French ignorance, from Latin ignōrantia. By surface analysis, ignor(e) + -ance.