ignorancenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈɪɡ.nər.əns/us/ˈɪɡ.nɚ.əns/C2 lack of knowledge, understanding, or information about something:
Public ignorance about the disease is still a cause for concern.
Patients, it is claimed, were kept/left in ignorance of what was wrong with them.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unaware
- be in the dark idiom
- be on another planet idiom
- benighted
- blind
- blind spot
- blissful
- fail
- faint
- ignorant
- ill-informed
- illiterate
- in blissful ignorance idiom
- lost
- not have a clue/have no clue idiom
- unbeknownst
- unconscious
- uneducated
- unfamiliar
- unknowing
- unnoticed
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Idiom(s)
ignorance is bliss