Tuesday word: Nescience
Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2022
Nescience (noun)
nesc·ience [nesh-uhns, nesh-ee-uhns, nes-ee-]
noun
1. lack of knowledge; ignorance.
2. agnosticism (def. 2).
OTHER WORDS FROM NESCIENCE
nescient, adjective
non·nes·cience, noun
non·nes·cient, adjective
WORDS RELATED TO NESCIENCE
bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, fog, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, insensitivity, oblivion, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism
See synonyms for: nescience / nescient on Thesaurus.com
ORIGIN: First recorded in 1605-15; from Late Latin nescientia “ignorance,” from nescient-, the stem of nesciens, present participle of nescire “to be ignorant, not to know,” equivalent to ne- “not” + scientia “knowledge”; see science
HOW TO USE NESCIENCE IN A SENTENCE
The Americans' good and honest intentions were only equalled by their nescience of the Malay character.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS|JOHN FOREMAN
Can the Churinga nanja and reincarnation beliefs have set up nescience of obvious facts among the Arunta?
THE SECRET OF THE TOTEM|ANDREW LANG
That nescience, says Mr. Frazer, "may be explained easily enough from the habits and modes of thought of savage men."
THE SECRET OF THE TOTEM|ANDREW LANG
Perhaps all the science that is not at bottom physical science is only pretentious nescience.
CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION|GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Nescience (noun)
nesc·ience [nesh-uhns, nesh-ee-uhns, nes-ee-]
noun
1. lack of knowledge; ignorance.
2. agnosticism (def. 2).
OTHER WORDS FROM NESCIENCE
nescient, adjective
non·nes·cience, noun
non·nes·cient, adjective
WORDS RELATED TO NESCIENCE
bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, fog, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, insensitivity, oblivion, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism
See synonyms for: nescience / nescient on Thesaurus.com
ORIGIN: First recorded in 1605-15; from Late Latin nescientia “ignorance,” from nescient-, the stem of nesciens, present participle of nescire “to be ignorant, not to know,” equivalent to ne- “not” + scientia “knowledge”; see science
HOW TO USE NESCIENCE IN A SENTENCE
The Americans' good and honest intentions were only equalled by their nescience of the Malay character.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS|JOHN FOREMAN
Can the Churinga nanja and reincarnation beliefs have set up nescience of obvious facts among the Arunta?
THE SECRET OF THE TOTEM|ANDREW LANG
That nescience, says Mr. Frazer, "may be explained easily enough from the habits and modes of thought of savage men."
THE SECRET OF THE TOTEM|ANDREW LANG
Perhaps all the science that is not at bottom physical science is only pretentious nescience.
CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION|GEORGE BERNARD SHAW