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  • 101obliviousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The condition of being uninformed or unaware: ignorance, innocence, nescience, unawareness, unconsciousness, unfamiliarity. See KNOWLEDGE. 2. Freedom from worry, care, or unpleasantness: escape, forgetfulness,… …

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  • 102unawareness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being uninformed or unaware: ignorance, innocence, nescience, obliviousness, unconsciousness, unfamiliarity. See KNOWLEDGE …

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  • 103unconsciousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being uninformed or unaware: ignorance, innocence, nescience, obliviousness, unawareness, unfamiliarity. See KNOWLEDGE …

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  • 104unfamiliarity — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being uninformed or unaware: ignorance, innocence, nescience, obliviousness, unawareness, unconsciousness. See KNOWLEDGE …

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  • 105Ignorance — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Ignorance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 ignorance ignorance nescience tabula rasa crass ignorance ignorance crasse Sgm: N 1 unacquaintance unacquaintance Sgm: N 1 unconsciousness unconsciousness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 …

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  • 106nescient — [ nɛsɪənt] adjective literary lacking knowledge; ignorant. Derivatives nescience noun Origin ME: from L. nescient , nescire to not know , from ne not + scire know …

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  • 107ignorance — n. Illiteracy, nescience, darkness, blindness, want of knowledge …

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  • 108illiteracy — noun 1) for these villagers, poverty and illiteracy go hand in hand Syn: inability to read or write 2) technological illiteracy Syn: ignorance, unawareness, inexperience, unenlightenment, lack of knowledge, lack of education; informal… …

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  • 109knowledge — knowledge, science, learning, erudition, scholarship, information, lore are comparable when they mean what is known or can be known, usually by an individual but sometimes by human beings in general. Knowledge applies not only to a body of facts… …

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  • 110ignorance — n unawareness, unenlightenment, unconsciousness, benightedness, darkness, blindness, nescience, want or lack of knowledge; illiteracy, illiterateness, lack of education or learning; innocence, simplicity, inexperience, greenness; bewilderment,… …

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