Dental students can obtain either a Doctorate of Dental Medicine (DMD) or Doctorate of Dental Surgery (DDS). DMD and DDS are equivalent degrees, and both programs consist of the same four-year curricula. The first two years are comprised of natural and clinical science instruction in classrooms and laboratories.
Freebase(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: Ignorance. Ignorance is a state of being uninformed. The word ignorant is an adjective describing a person in the state of being unaware and is often used as an insult to describe individuals who deliberately ignore or disregard important information or facts.
1 There is absolutely nothing wrong with being ignorant. 2  Stupid. 3  Being stupid means that you lack intelligence or common sense, that you know you're ignorant about something and don't do a thing about it. 4  Example: A student taking an algebra class who knows he doesn't know the information, but he doesn't study.