ignorance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A lack of knowledge or information about something.

   Her ignorance of basic geography surprised everyone.

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Simplified etymology

Ignorance comes from Latin ignorare, “not to know,” which also gave English ignore. The related ignoramus is Latin for “we do not know” and entered English through a former legal formula used when a grand jury found insufficient evidence, later becoming a term for an ignorant person.

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

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