the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.

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competence , cultivation , education , experience , intelligence , knowledge , literacy , talent , wisdom

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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 , naivet , nescience , oblivion , obtuseness , philistinism , rawness , sciolism , shallowness , simplicity , unawareness , unconsciousness , uncouthness , unenlightenment , unfamiliarity , unscholarliness , vagueness , illiterateness , obliviousness , agnosticism , charlatanry , inerudition , quackery , rusticity