ignorance
Roget category 491
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.5. Results of reasoning
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Ignorance
noun
ignorance,
nescience,
tabula rasa [Lat.],
crass ignorance,
ignorance crasse [Fr.] —
unfamiliarity,
unacquaintance† —
unconsciousness
etc.
adj. —
darkness,
blindness —
incomprehension,
inexperience,
simplicity.
unknown quantities,
x,
y,
z.
sealed book,
terra incognita,
virgin soil,
unexplored ground —
dark ages.
[Imperfect knowledge]
smattering,
sciolism†,
glimmering,
dilettantism —
bewilderment
etc.
(uncertainty)
475 —
incapacity.
[Affectation of knowledge]
pedantry —
charlatanry,
charlatism† —
Philister†,
Philistine.
verb
be ignorant
etc.
adj. —
not know
etc.
490 —
know not,
know not what,
know nothing of —
have no idea,
have no notion,
have no conception —
not have the remotest idea —
not know chalk from cheese.
ignore,
be blind to —
keep in ignorance
etc.
(conceal)
528.
see through a glass darkly —
have a film over the eyes,
have a glimmering
etc.
n. —
wonder whether —
not know what to make of
etc.
(unintelligibility)
519 —
not pretend to take upon,
not take upon one self to say.
adjective
ignorant —
nescient —
unknowing,
unaware,
unacquainted,
unapprised,
unapprized†,
unwitting,
unweeting†,
unconscious —
witless,
weetless† —
a stranger to —
unconversant†.
uninformed,
uncultivated,
unversed,
uninstructed,
untaught,
uninitiated,
untutored,
unschooled,
misguided,
unenlightened —
Philistine —
behind the age.
shallow,
superficial,
green,
rude,
empty,
half-learned,
illiterate —
unread,
uninformed,
uneducated,
unlearned,
unlettered,
unbookish —
empty-headed,
dizzy,
wooly-headed —
pedantic —
in the dark —
benighted,
belated —
blinded,
blindfolded —
hoodwinked —
misinformed —
au bout de son latin,
at the end of his tether,
at fault —
at sea
etc.
(uncertain)
475 —
caught tripping.
unknown,
unapprehended,
unexplained,
unascertained,
uninvestigated†,
unexplored,
unheard of,
not perceived —
concealed
etc.
528 —
novel.
adverb
ignorantly
etc.
adj. —
unawares —
for anything,
for aught one knows —
not that one knows.
interjection
God knows,
Heaven knows,
the Lord knows,
who knows,
nobody knows.
phrase
ignorance never settles a question"
[Disraeli];
quantum animis erroris inest! [Lat.]
[Ovid];
small Latin and less Greek"
[B. Jonson];
that unlettered small-knowing soul"
[Love's Labor's Lost];
there is no darkness but ignorance"
[Twelfth Night].
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