Is ignore the root of ignorance?

Hi,

These are pasted from http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ignore

Are they not satisfactory to you?

ignorance

Cliveignore

Hi Clive,

Thanks for the reference but these are the facts I already knew.
Here is a quote the likes of which i found several on the web:
"For years I have contended that an undesirable effect of the Galactic Center is ignorance, or more precisely: ignore-ance. Unlike ignorance, which is the lack of knowledge, ignore-ance is the act of ignoring available insight, information and

eyal.herlinI understand that ignorance and ignore has the same latin roots but quotes like these make me wonder if i can safely say that according to English grammar ignorance is composed of the word ignore and the suffix ance.

I don't think that's a very big leap.

thanks for the cynicism but i'm not a native english speaker and i just wanted to be sure

eyal.herlinthanks for the cynicism but i'm not a native english speaker and i just wanted to be sure

Sorry, I wasn't meaning to be cynical. I just didn't have any evidence that it was not the case, and that your assumption was correct.

[Native speakers may use that expression too often.]

Once during my Bible study I understood that Ignorance is a compound word resulting from the combination of two words namely:

Ignore + Brilliance = (Ignor-) + (-ance) = Ignorance

To be ignorant is to ignore brilliance. Brilliance refers to the Light (the Truth, the Way)... the Knowledge of the Truth... That is why Ignorance is always referred to as the lack of Knowledge..

While that's a great folk etymology it has nothing to do with the actual source of the words.

whatever happened to faith? wasnt it the knowledge of good and evil and the the blatant disregard of the Lords warning to stay away from it that made us all so miserable to begin with?

from what i see in the world, and the academic world, knowledge just leads to pride.. and pride can change the most brilliant angel into the darkest monster.

beware.. narci

I've recently started doing a lot of research into the matter, because of an argument I had with my wife. If you look at the definitions, there is actually a key difference between the root "ignore" and the word "ignorance.

In English, the word ignore means to 'disregard' or 'pay no attention to.' The word ignorance only implies a lack of knowledge. The key difference is that to ignore so