God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
nescience — ⇒NESCIENCE, subst. fém. Littér. Absence de savoir, de connaissance. Synon. ignorance, méconnaissance. [Des paysannes croyantes] sont dégrevées du poids affreux du doute (...) elles possèdent la nescience presque absolue du Mal (HUYSMANS, Cathédr … Encyclopédie Universelle
nescience — I noun blindness, darkness, greenness, ignorance, ignoration, incognizance, inexperience, lack of awareness, lack of knowledge, lack of learning, naivete, rawness, unawareness, uncomprehension, unenlightenment, uninformedness, unintelligence,… … Law dictionary
nescience — (n.) ignorance, 1610s, from L.L. nescientia, from nesciens (see NESCIENT (Cf. nescient)) … Etymology dictionary
nescience — noun /ˈnɛsɪəns,ˈnɛʃəns/ a) Ignorance; the absence of knowledge, especially of orthodox beliefs. To lapse from knowledge into nescience is always possible there is no law of God or man forbidding it. b) The doctrine that nothing is actually… … Wiktionary
nescience — (entrée créée par le supplément) (nè ssi an s ) s. f. État de celui qui ne sait pas, qui n a pas de savoir. • Dès le début, la religion a fait les plus grands efforts pour unir plus ou moins de science à la nescience ; la science a dès le début … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
nescience — noun Etymology: Late Latin nescientia, from Latin nescient , nesciens, present participle of nescire not to know, from ne not + scire to know more at no, science Date: 1612 lack of knowledge or awareness ; ignorance • nescient adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
nescience — nescient, adj. /nesh euhns, nesh ee euhns, nes ee /, n. 1. lack of knowledge; ignorance. 2. agnosticism. [1605 15; < LL nescientia ignorance, equiv. to ne not + scientia knowledge; see SCIENCE] * * * … Universalium
nescience — Synonyms and related words: agnosticism, blankmindedness, callowness, empty headedness, greenhornism, greenness, hiatus of learning, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, inanity, inexperience, innocence, know nothingism, knowledge gap, lack of… … Moby Thesaurus
nescience — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. naïveté, inexperience, unawareness; see ignorance 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The condition of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or learning: benightedness, ignorance, illiteracy, illiterateness. See KNOWLEDGE. 2 … English dictionary for students
nescience — nes·ci·ence || neʃns / nesɪəns n. lack of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism; skepticism … English contemporary dictionary
