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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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The delta smelt was bound for extinction years ago, but it’s still a red flag signifying political ignorance on the right.
The chief bug in the system is Musk’s ignorance.
When a new woman is admitted to the facility, her naive assumptions about how the system works — the result of ignorance that seems at first to mirror our own — counter Sara’s experience-driven awareness of problems.
And it’s an attempt by the truly malevolent to weaponize their dangerous ignorance, to make their viciousness normal—and to implicate all of us in their inhumanity.
Jack Priest 18, said one of the main reasons the riots occurred was because of ignorance or not being aware of different cultures.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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