uneducation

From un- +‎ education.

uneducation (uncountable)

1. Lack of education; ignorance.
   • 1899, Elwyn Alfred Barron, Manders: A Tale of Paris, page 8:

     Nearly six years of age was Manders now, but he still knew very well the gross folly of being much disturbed by such irrational things as death and the hodge-podge of mortal uneducation.

   • 1911, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art:

     The sight of a sheepskin coat from Zakopane led me to a discussion of Polish peasant industries, and the high percentage of artistic achievement in spite of wretched poverty and uneducation.

   • 1964, New Society, volume 4, page 25:

     But most school magazines I have seen are devastating examples of uneducation.

• uneducated

• unauctioned, uncautioned