ignorance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information.

   She shows total ignorance about the topic at hand.

2. 2
   noun

   the lack of knowledge or education

3. 3
   noun

   Sins committed through ignorance.

4. 4
   noun

   Existential blindness.

5. 5
   name

   A personification of ignorance.

Etymology

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