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nescience

[ nesh-uhns, nesh-ee-uhns, nes-ee- ]

noun

  1. lack of knowledge; ignorance.


nescience

/ ˈnɛsɪəns /

noun

  1. a formal or literary word for ignorance
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈnescient, adjective
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Other Words From

  • nescient adjective
  • non·nescience noun
  • non·nescient adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nescience1

First recorded in 1605–15; from Late Latin nescientia “ignorance,” from nescient-, the stem of nesciēns, present participle of nescīre “to be ignorant, not to know,” equivalent to ne- “not” + scientia “knowledge”; science
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nescience1

C17: from Late Latin nescientia, from Latin nescīre to be ignorant of, from ne not + scīre to know; compare science
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Example Sentences

The Americansʼ good and honest intentions were only equalled by their nescience of the Malay character.

Can the Churinga nanja and reincarnation beliefs have set up nescience of obvious facts among the Arunta?

That nescience, says Mr. Frazer, "may be explained easily enough from the habits and modes of thought of savage men."

Perhaps all the science that is not at bottom physical science is only pretentious nescience.

Nor is he, like Shakespeare's biographer, reduced to choose between the starvation of nescience and the windy diet of conjecture.

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