gno-, gnos-, gnoto-, -gnostic, -gnosia, -gnomic, -gnomonic, -gnomical, -gnomy, -gnosia, -gnostic, -gnosis
(Greek: know, learn, discern)
2. A shameful or disgraceful action, conduct, or character: After causing the accident, running away, and being caught afterwards, Ted suffered the ignominy of having to go to the police station in the police car and having to pay a huge fine.
3. Etymology: from Latin ignominia; from French ignominie; literally, "without a name".
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so you can see more of Mickey Bach's cartoons. 2. Etymology: from Latin ignorare, "not to know, to misunderstand, to disregard"; from ignarus, "not knowing, unaware"; i- (variant of in-, "not" + gnarus, "aware, acquainted with".
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2. Unawareness of something, often of something important; uninformed.
There is one thing to be said about ignorance—it sure causes a lot of interesting arguments.
2. Lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact: "He is ignorant of quantum physics, as most of us are.
3. Uninformed; unaware.
4. A result of or showing a lack of knowledge or training: "He made such an ignorant statement that no one had any confidence in anything that he said."
Also given as Ignorantia iuris (juris) non excusat, "Ignorance of the law does not excuse". An even broader expression is Ignorantia non excusat, "Ignorance does not excuse"; which goes beyond the realm of law, providing us with the criticism of some unfortunate one who says, "But I didn't know . . . ."
2. Unskillfully; inexpertly: "A man may mistake blunders as being wonderful and ignorantly admire them."
2. The diagnosis of disease by studying the antibodies in a sample of blood serum.
2. Partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend a spoken or written language, resulting from damage to the brain caused by injury or disease.
3. A defect or loss of the ability to speak or write, the loss of the ability to understand spoken or written language, due to injury or disease of the brain centers.
2. To diagnose erroneously.
2. A conclusion, identification, or decision reached by mistake: "Unless there is proper testing, the potential for a misdiagnosis can be considerable."
"After several misdiagnoses, the committee found out what the problem actually was and then tehy were able to come up with a successful solution."
2. The condition of being totally uneducated, unaware, or uninformed about something in particular, or about a multitude of things.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "know, knowledge; learn, learning": cogni-; discip-; histor-; intellect-; learn, know; math-; sap-; sci-; sopho-.