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[syn: ignorantness, nescience, unknowing, unknowingness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nescience
n 1: ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) [syn:
ignorantness, nescience, unknowing, unknowingness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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