ignorance vs negligence

ignorance

noun
  • The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information. 

  • Sins committed through ignorance. 

negligence

noun
  • The state of being negligent. 

  • The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation. 

  • The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury. 

How often have the words ignorance and negligence occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )