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Ignoring vs Ignorance - What's the difference?

ignoring | ignorance |

As nouns the difference between ignoring and ignorance

is that ignoring is the act by which something is ignored while ignorance is the condition of being uninformed or uneducated. Lack of knowledge or information.

As a verb ignoring

is present participle of lang=en.

As a proper noun Ignorance is

a personification of ignorance.

ignoring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is ignored.
  • * 1999 , David Lewis, Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology (volume 2, page 437)
    • We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S'' does not ignore them. ''S'' is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because ''S never knew much of anything.

    Anagrams

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    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