Definitions for: Ignorance

[n] the lack of knowledge or education

Webster (1913) Definition: Ig"no*rance, n. [F., fr. L. ignorantia.]
1. The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in
general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state
of being uneducated or uninformed.

Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing
wherewith we fly to heaven. --Shak.

2. (Theol.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge
which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. --Book
of Common Prayer.

Invincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance beyond the
individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not
responsible before God.

See Also: cognitive content, content, ignorantness, illiteracy, inexperience, mental object, nescience, unenlightenment, unknowing, unknowingness

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