NESCIENCE

ignorantness, nescience, unknowing, unknowingness

(noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

nescience (countable and uncountable, plural nesciences)

The absence of knowledge; ignorance, especially of orthodox beliefs.

(philosophy) The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.

Source: Wiktionary


Nes"cience, n. Etym: [L. nescientia, fr. nesciens, p.pr. of nescire not to know; ne not + scire to know.]

Definition: Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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