ignorance
/ˈɪɡn(ə)r(ə)ns/
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American sound/ˈɪɡn(ə)r(ə)ns/
ignorance
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
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- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
ig - no - rance -> ignorance
Myanmar meaning
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- Decisions based on ignorance and prejudice
- It would have been better to have remained in ignorance.
- [ignorance of] : Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
- [ignorance about] : There is a lot of public ignorance about how the disease is spread.
- [show/betray ignorance] : His comments showed his total ignorance of the situation.
Synonyms
lack of knowledge, unawareness, benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, inexperience, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unintelligence, unscholarliness, vagueness, witlessness
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lack of knowledgeunawarenessbenightednessbewildermentblindnesscallownesscrudenessdarknessdensenessdisregarddumbnessempty-headednessfoghalf-knowledgeilliteracyincapacityincomprehensioninexperienceinnocenceinscienceinsensitivitylack of educationmental incapacitynaiveténescienceoblivionobliviousnessobtuseness
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