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Ignorance is a state of being uninformed.

Ignorance may also refer to:

Social sciences

• Pluralistic ignorance, a concept in social psychology
• Rational ignorance, a concept in epistemology
• Vincible ignorance, a moral or doctrinal matter in Catholic ethics
• Ignorantia juris non excusat, literally "ignorance of the law is no excuse", the legal principle that the law applies also to those who are unaware of it
• Avidyā (Hinduism), ignorance as a concept in Vedanta
• Avijja, ignorance as a concept in Buddhism

Literature

• Ignorance (novel), a 2000 novel by Milan Kundera
• Ignorance, a poem in Philip Larkin's collection The Whitsun Weddings

Music

• Ignorance (Sacred Reich album), 1987
• Ignorance (The Weather Station album), 2021
• "Ignorance" (song), a song by American pop punk band Paramore
• Steve Ignorant, British punk musician

See also

• Ignorance Is Bliss (disambiguation)
• Ignoring (disambiguation)

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