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Ignoring vs Neglecting - What's the difference?

ignoring | neglecting |

As verbs the difference between ignoring and neglecting

is that ignoring is while neglecting is .

As a noun ignoring

is the act by which something is ignored.

ignoring

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    (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.

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    neglecting

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