ignorant vs layman

ignorant

noun
  • One who is ignorant. 

adj
  • Ill-mannered, crude. 

  • Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly. 

  • Not knowing (a fact or facts), unaware (of something). 

  • Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance. 

layman

noun
  • A generally ignorant person. 

  • A common person. 

  • Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy. 

  • Lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order. 

  • A person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject. 

  • Someone who is not a professional in a given field. 

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