Was heißt »Un­kennt­nis« auf Englisch?

Das Substantiv Un­kennt­nis lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • ignorance

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Hinter einem dogmatischen Tonfall steht tiefe Unkenntnis.

Profound ignorance is what is behind a dogmatic tone.

Unkenntnis des Gesetzes ist keine annehmbare Rechtfertigung.

Ignorance of the law is not accepted as a defence.

Toms Unkenntnis war allzu deutlich.

Tom's lack of knowledge was obvious.

Synonyme

Ig­no­ranz:
bigotry
Na­i­vi­tät:
naiveté
naivety

Antonyme

Kennt­nis:
acquaintance
cognizance
knowing
knowledge
Wis­sen:
knowledge

Englische Beispielsätze

  • The veil of ignorance is getting thinner.

  • Our problem is not ignorance, but indolence.

  • There is only one misery, and that is ignorance.

  • I can't accept such ignorance from my students. Did they learn nothing last year?

  • If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  • His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

  • If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

  • He'd rather live in blissful ignorance.

  • Freedom begins where ignorance ends.

  • The concept of God is a fantasy, created to placate our ignorance about our own existence.

  • The world's evil almost always comes from ignorance.

  • She stood looming down at him, attacking him for indolence and irreverence, blasphemy and ignorance, while waving her umbrella.

  • As Tom told me, Esperanto has two enemies, ignorance and prejudice.

  • I can plead ignorance.

  • In my country there is a shocking amount of mathematical ignorance.

  • To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

  • All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

  • There's no good and evil in this world; there's only ignorance, and ignorance, my friend, rules.

  • She took advantage of my ignorance.

  • They pretended ignorance.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

Kennt­nis:
acquaintance
cognizance
knowing
knowledge
Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Unkenntnis. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: Unkenntnis. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 1796415, 4561880, 5702349, 10572653, 10221625, 8239496, 7031207, 6780272, 6301691, 6214355, 5167785, 5054473, 3943527, 3622109, 3284449, 2935795, 2301285, 1642351, 667944, 667886, 503627, 314387 & 307129. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR