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ignorance

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Main Entry: ignorance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unintelligence, inexperience

Synonyms:

benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness

Antonyms:

competence, cultivation, education, experience, intelligence, knowledge, literacy, talent, wisdom
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Main Entry: ignorance
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
shallow, shallow, short, a stranger to, absent, addle, anile, apish, asinine, at fault, at sea, at the end of his tether, babbling, babish, babyish, beef, beetle, belated, benighted, bewildered, bigoted, blatant, blinded, blindfold, blockish, blunder, blunt, boeotic, bookless, bovine, brainless, caught tripping, childish, childlike, clod, dansey, dimsighted, diverted, doltish, driveling, dull, dull, dull as a beetle, eccentric, empty, empty, fat, fat, feeble, frivolous, giddy, glaikit, gratuitous, green, gross, half, having no head, heavy, hoodwinked, idiotic, idle, ignorant, ill, ill, ill, impalpable, improper, in the dark, inapprehensible, inapt, incogitable, incogitant, inconsiderate, inconsistent, indocible, inept, inexpedient, infantile, infantine, injudicious, insensate, insipient, insulse, irrational, lack, maggoty, misinformed, muddle, narrow, nonsensical, not bright, not to be thought of, novel, obtuse, off one's mind, parviscient, pedantic, philistine, pig, puerile, puzzle, reasonless, ridiculous, rude, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, sleeveless, sottish, spoony, stolid, stupid, superficial, thick, unacquainted, unapprehended, unapprized, unascertained, unaware, unbookish, unconscious, unconsidered, unconversant, uncultivated, undiscerning, undreamt of, uneducated, unendowed with reason, unenlightened, unexplained, unexplored, ungifted, unguided, unheard of, unideal, uninformed, uninitiated, uninstructed, unintellectual, unintelligent, uninvestigated, unknowing, unknown, unlearned, unlettered, unoccupied, unperceived, unphilosophical, unread, unreasonable, unschooled, untaught, unteachable, unthinking, unthought of, untutored, unversed, unweeting, unwise, unwitting, useless, vacant, vacuous, wanting, wantwit, weak, weak, weak in the upper story, weetless, without reason, witless
Main Entry: awkwardness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clumsiness; inelegance

Synonyms:

amateurishness, artlessness, boorishness, cloddishness, coarseness, crudeness, gawkiness, gracelessness, greenness, ignorance, inability, incompetence, ineptitude, ineptness, inexpertness, maladroitness, oafishness, rudeness, tactlessness, uncoordination, uncouthness, ungainliness, unskillfulness

Antonyms:

artfulness, dexterity, elegance, grace, handiness, skill
Main Entry: innocence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: harmlessness, naiveté

Synonyms:

artlessness, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, frankness, freshness, guilelessness, gullibility, ignorance, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, lack, nescience, plainness, purity, simplicity, sincerity, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness, virtue

Antonyms:

experience, impurity, knowledge, treacherousness, wildness
Main Entry: youth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: early period in life of animate being

Synonyms:

adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness

Antonyms:

adulthood, maturity
Main Entry: immaturity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inexperience

Synonyms:

babyishness, callowness, childish behavior, childishness, greenness, ignorance, imperfection, incompleteness, infantilism, puerility, rawness
Main Entry: stupidity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dullness of mind

Synonyms:

absurdity, apathy, asininity, battiness, brainlessness, doltishness, fatuity, fatuousness, feeble-mindedness, idiocy, ignorance, imbecility, imprudence, incapacity, ineptitude, injudiciousness, insensibility, lunacy, nitwittedness, nonsense, obtuseness, puerility, shallowness, silliness, simplicity, slowness, slowness, sluggishness, stolidity, stupefaction, stupidness, stupor, thick-headedness, weak-mindedness, weakness

Antonyms:

intelligence, judgment, wisdom
Main Entry: greenness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: youth

Synonyms:

adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, juvenility, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness
Main Entry: greenness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inexperience

Synonyms:

amateur, callowness, ignorance, immaturity, ineptness, inexpertness, innocence, newness, rawness, youth
Main Entry: inexperience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lack of experience

Synonyms:

babyishness, callowness, childish behavior, childishness, greenness, ignorance, imperfection, incompleteness, inexpertness, infantilism, puerility, rawness
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