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Benighted vs Ignorance - What's the difference?

benighted | ignorance |

As an adjective benighted

is plunged into darkness.

As a verb benighted

is past tense of benight.

As a noun ignorance is

the condition of being uninformed or uneducated. Lack of knowledge or information.

As a proper noun Ignorance is

a personification of ignorance.

benighted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • plunged into darkness
  • overtaken by night
  • * 1936 , Robert Frost, "Desert Places"
    • And lonely as it is, that loneliness
    Will be more lonely ere it will be less —
    A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
    With no expression, nothing to express.
  • lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (label)(benight)

    • Anagrams

    *

    ignorance

    English

    (wikipedia ignorance) ("ignorance on Wikiquote")

    Alternative forms

    * ignoraunce

    Noun

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

    • Derived terms

    * ignorant * willful ignorance * ignorance is bliss

    Synonyms

    * unawareness * blindness