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View synonyms for nescience
nescience
[ nesh-uhns, nesh-ee-uhns, nes-ee- ]
nescience
/ ˈnɛsɪəns /
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Derived Forms
- ˈnescient, adjective
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Other Words From
- nescient adjective
- non·nescience noun
- non·nescient 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.
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Can the Churinga nanja and reincarnation beliefs have set up nescience of obvious facts among the Arunta?
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That nescience, says Mr. Frazer, "may be explained easily enough from the habits and modes of thought of savage men."
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Perhaps all the science that is not at bottom physical science is only pretentious nescience.
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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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