Nescience

Quick meaning: Nescience is a noun meaning The absence of knowledge, especially of orthodox beliefs.

Meaning

The absence of knowledge, especially of orthodox beliefs.

More Meanings

1. (philosophy) The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.

Example Sentences

Better to have honest nescience than to have militant ignorance.

The theory of nescience is but the obverse of the fact of science.

To lapse from knowledge into nescience is always possible—there is no law of God or man forbidding it.

Algernon, in a condition of masculine nescience, lets himself become engaged to a woman of whom he knows nothing.

Word Forms

• nesciences

Synonyms for nescience

Depending on context, synonyms include unknowing, ignorantness, unknowingness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unknowingness, ignorantness, unknowing, beginningless, unknowledge, nonknowledge.

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