ignoring

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of ignore

plural ignorings

1. The act by which something is ignored.

   Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!

   1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102

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   We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S does not ignore them. S is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because S never knew much of anything.

   1999, David Lewis, Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, volume 2, page 437