ignorance

• ignoraunce

From Old French ignorance. Surface analysis: ignore +‎ -ance

• enPR: ĭg'nərəns, IPA^(key): /ˈɪɡnəɹəns/

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ignorance (countable and uncountable, plural ignorances)

1. The condition of being uninformed or uneducated. Lack of knowledge or information.

   Synonyms: blindness, cluelessness, knowledgelessness, unawareness, unknowingness, unknowledge

2. (religion, in the plural) Sins committed through ignorance.

• ignorant
• willful ignorance
• ignorance is bliss

• In Roman Catholic theology, vincible or wilful ignorance is such as one might be fairly expected to overcome, hence it can never be an excuse for sin, whether of omission or of commission; while invincible ignorance, which a person cannot help or abate, altogether excuses from guilt.

• ear coning, enorganic, garcinone

From Old French, from Latin ignorantia.

• IPA^(key): /i.ɲɔ.ʁɑ̃s/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

ignorance f (plural ignorances)

1. ignorance

• “ignorance” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• rencognai

Latin ignōrantia.

ignorance f (oblique plural ignorances, nominative singular ignorance, nominative plural ignorances)

1. ignorance (lacking of knowledge; lack of understanding)
2. something that one is ignorant of

• English: ignorance
• French: ignorance

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (ignorance, supplement)