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

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  • There was but a brief twilight interval between nescience and knowledge. —  The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
  • On the other hand, as the limits of science expand, so do the limits of nescience become more definite. —  Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
  • Nor is he, like Shakespeare's biographer, reduced to choose between the starvation of nescience and the windy diet of conjecture. —  Life of John Milton
  • Such an avowal of nescience is an implicit assertion of an immeasurable insight And has He not, as the glorified Christ_, thrown a light of affirmation on the "opinions" of the days of His flesh? —  To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work
  • Prothero his nescience was profound. —  The Research Magnificent
 

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  1. Late Latin nescientia, from Latin nesciēns, nescient-, present participle of nescīre, to be ignorant : ne-, not; see ne in Indo-European roots + scīre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French néscience = Spanish Portuguese nesciencia = Italian nescienza, from Late Latin nescientia, ignorance, from Latin nescien (t-) s, ignorant: see nescient.
 

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