Is Benightedness a Word?

The condition of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or learning: ignorance, illiteracy, illiterateness, nescience.

How do you use benighted in a sentence?

Examples of 'benighted' in a sentence benighted
  • This country has always abandoned its benighted poor.
  • Because we are foolish and benighted and live in utter darkness. ...
  • He will say earnestly, poor benighted souls. ...
  • It was a benighted place.

What is a benighted person?

1 : overtaken by darkness or night Benighted travellers … have seen his midnight candle glimmering.— W. B. Yeats. 2 : existing in a state of intellectual, moral, or social darkness : unenlightened spreading their message among these poor benighted people a strange, benighted country.

Sophia Al-Mansoor

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