About The Word Nescience
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Nescience
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What's The Definition Of Nescience?
[n] ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Nescience: ignorantness | unknowing | unknowingness Related Terms | Find terms related to Nescience: agnosticism | blankmindedness | callowness | empty-headedness | greenhornism | greenness | hiatus of learning | ignorance | ignorantism | ignorantness | inanity | inexperience | innocence | knowledge-gap | know-nothingism | lack of information | obscurantism | rawness | simpleness | simplicity | tabula rasa | unacquaintance | unacquaintedness | unawareness | unfamiliarity | unintelligence | unknowing | unknowingness | unripeness | vacuity | vacuousness See Also | ignorance Nescience In Webster's Dictionary \Nes"cience\, n. [L. nescientia, fr. nesciens, p. pr.
of nescire not to know; ne not + scire to know.]
Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.
God fetched it about for me, in that absence and
nescience of mine. --Bp. Hall.
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