nescience
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nes·cience
(nĕsh'əns, nĕsh'ē-əns, nēsh'-, nĕs'ē-əns, nē'sē-) 
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- Absence of knowledge or awareness; ignorance.
- Agnosticism.
[Late Latin nescientia, from Latin nesciēns, nescient-, present participle of nescīre, to be ignorant : ne-, not + scīre, to know.]
nescient nes'cient adj. & n.Roget's Thesaurus:
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nescience
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- The condition of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or learning: benightedness, ignorance, illiteracy, illiterateness. See knowledge/ignorance.
- The condition of being uninformed or unaware: ignorance, innocence, obliviousness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unfamiliarity. See knowledge/ignorance.
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nescience
lack of knowledge or awareness: ignorance; the doctrine that nothing is truly knowable
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