wilful ignorance 

Knowingly ignoring something for no good reason.

When Joe read the newspaper every morning, he knowingly skipped over the articles about car crashes, even though they were happening all around him. A fine example of wilful ignorance!

"What a willfully ignorant bastard!"

wilful ignorance by Ohnonamouse March 9, 2009

informed ignorance 

The seemingly oxymoronic state one holds after being briefed on an important issue that they themselves recognize as deserving of further investigation, and then having made the conscious decision not to learn anything more about it.

Example 1.
Dude A: Hey dude, wanna go to that lecture on the ongoing genocide in Darfur?
Dude B: Nah, no thanks dude. I'm happy with my informed ignorance.

Example 2.
Hippies often try to make you feel guilty about your own informed ignorance.

informed ignorance by outercow April 25, 2009

willful ignorance 

(noun)
The practice or act of intentional and blatant avoidance, disregard or disagreement with facts, empirical evidence and well-founded arguements because they oppose or contradict your own existing personal beliefs.

This practice is most commonly found in the political or religious ideologies of "conservative" Americans.

Many times it is practiced due to laziness--people not wanting to have to do the work to rethink their opinions, the fear of the unknown, the fear of being wrong, or sometimes simply close-mindedness.

alt. form: willfully ignorant

Then Julie said, "It's not that I don't believe you, it's just not what the Bible says." God, what a willfully ignorant fucktard.

willful ignorance by chronosis April 21, 2005

musical ignorance 

a disease in which those really annoying kids who only listen to that noobish electropop stuff played on the radio don't know shit about actual music but think they do

musically ignorant individual (referring to metal): all they do is scream.
person who knows music: stop screwing up your genres. you have musical ignorance.

musical ignorance by ignorantpeopleshalldie September 3, 2009

igonrant 

noun
1. An unrepentantly preposterous, wrongheaded statement, often lengthy, obscure, poorly worded, badly spelled, ineptly punctuated, and simply unformatted, posted in an online forum.

2. A statement, perhaps otherwise intelligent but not necessarily so, containing the word "igonrant" as a pejorative, posted in an online forum.

3. A person who has posted or makes a habit of posting igonrants.

verb
1. To engage in creating an igonrant (in the noun:1 or noun: 2 sense)

2. To engage in creating an igonrant (in the noun:3 sense)

noun:1
Hey, check out this igonrant about how homosexuality is causing all of the earthquakes!

noun:2
I hated W too, but this igonrant for bush makes all of us look bad.

noun:3
Did you see the entry for nigitis? Whoever posted that is a real igonrant.

verb:1
Hurry up man, we'll miss the Nazi rally!
Hold your horses, I have to finish igonranting about President Obama.

verb:2
Hey, good looking, you drive a Humvee too? Let's head to my place and igonrant.

igonrant by GreatBigBore March 16, 2010

Ignorance 

IG-NOR-ANCE (ignore-ance)
To ignore-the act of ignoring something or someone either intentionally or unintentionally.

The repeated ignorance of the rules they previously created led to their downfall.

Ignorance by CallMeK October 13, 2020

Orbital ignorance

The phenomenon by which a person loses 20 IQ points or more by being in the vicinity of a stupid person

"Nathan caused Kevin to suffer from orbital ignorance almost daily".

Orbital ignorance by chaosoftime June 16, 2011