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HOME | Definition of nescience (NESCIENCE, Nescience)


    Nescience \Nes"cience\, n. [L. nescientia, fr. nesciens, p. pr.
    of nescire not to know; ne not + scire to know.]
    Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.
    [1913 Webster]

    God fetched it about for me, in that absence and
    nescience of mine. --Bp. Hall.
    [1913 Webster]

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    nescience
    n : ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) [syn: ignorantness,
    unknowing, unknowingness]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    31 Moby Thesaurus words for "nescience":
    agnosticism, blankmindedness, callowness, empty-headedness,
    greenhornism, greenness, hiatus of learning, ignorance,
    ignorantism, ignorantness, inanity, inexperience, innocence,
    know-nothingism, knowledge-gap, lack of information, obscurantism,
    rawness, simpleness, simplicity, tabula rasa, unacquaintance,
    unacquaintedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unintelligence,
    unknowing, unknowingness, unripeness, vacuity, vacuousness

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0


ignorantness, unknowing, unknowingness


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