nescience

n.

1. Absence of knowledge or awareness; ignorance.
2. 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.

noun

1. The condition of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or learning: benightedness, ignorance, illiteracy, illiterateness. See knowledge/ignorance.
2. The condition of being uninformed or unaware: ignorance, innocence, obliviousness, unawareness, unconsciousness, unfamiliarity. See knowledge/ignorance.

lack of knowledge or awareness: ignorance; the doctrine that nothing is truly knowable

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)
  Synonyms: ignorantness, unknowing, unknowingness

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