If you didn't do any of the reading or homework for your Russian history class, you are probably hoping the teacher won't call on you, so you can hide your ignorance, or lack of knowledge.
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.
Noun
the lack of knowledge or education
n.
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.
n.
A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which
one may acquire and it is his duty to have.
Ignorance
Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.2.
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.
Usage Examples
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Other Usage ExamplesDogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.