different between ignorance vs innumeracy

English

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Alternative forms

• ignoraunce

Etymology

From Old French ignorance. Surface analysis: ignore +? -ance

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?g'n?r?ns, IPA^(key): /???n???ns/

Noun

ignorance (countable and uncountable, plural ignorances)

1. The condition of being uninformed or uneducated. Lack of knowledge or information.

   Synonyms: blindness, cluelessness, knowledgelessness, unawareness, unknowingness, unknowledge

2. (religion, in the plural) Sins committed through ignorance.

Derived terms

• ignorance is bliss
• ignorant
• willful ignorance

Translations

Usage notes

• In Roman Catholic theology, vincible or wilful ignorance is such as one might be fairly expected to overcome, hence it can never be an excuse for sin, whether of omission or of commission; while invincible ignorance, which a person cannot help or abate, altogether excuses from guilt.

Anagrams

• ear coning, enorganic, garcinone

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin ignorantia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.??.???s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

ignorance f (plural ignorances)

1. ignorance

Further reading

• “ignorance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• rencognai

Old French

Etymology

Latin ign?rantia.

Noun

ignorance f (oblique plural ignorances, nominative singular ignorance, nominative plural ignorances)

1. ignorance (lacking of knowledge; lack of understanding)
2. something that one is ignorant of

Descendants

• English: ignorance
• French: ignorance

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (ignorance, supplement)

English

Etymology

From in- +? numeracy; coined by Douglas Hofstadter and popularized by mathematician John Allen Paulos in his 1989 book Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences.

Noun

innumeracy (countable and uncountable, plural innumeracies)

1. An ignorance of mathematics, or an inability to manipulate numbers

   The man suffered from innumeracy stemming from a brain injury, and depended on his wife for all financial matters, no matter how trivial.

Antonyms

• numeracy

See also

• dyscalculia
• illiteracy