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noun- Complete or utter lack of knowledge. Also: An act or action of failing to notice or pay attention.

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  • If only to illustrate that I am useful for more than lounge-lizard renditions of Mahler's 2nd, I will concur with Matthew that ignoration is in the OED and has a use...
  • This act of ignoration is act of disrespect for something.
  • It is an act of ignoration, practically: an act of disrespect for something in sexuality of human being.
  • This diplomatic affront by Israel upon Turkey, this outright ignoration of all of the rules of Feng Shui has us all now right on the verge of Nuclear World War III.
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