nescience

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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?

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

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  • What these “Wall Street†interviewees and Lester Thoreau wannabes kept repeating in lockstep rote nescience was that this $700B attempted bailout was intended to in fact rescue everybody†™ s favorite neo-bogeyman, the hedge fund fat cat. —  The Latest on Air America
  • Her utter nescience is only complemented by her nauseating haughtiness. —  Seriously Sandeep
  • Because of an institutional nescience of the subject of the Middle East, a deliberate refusal to denote some organizations and groups as terrorist and an almost Pavlovian obeisance to the rule that any group or organization that opposes Israel must a fortiori be supported, sympathized with and sided with. —  The Latest on Air America
  • To be stimulated into reading on, researching on, spurred on to a life where knowledge and nescience alternate. —  signandsight.com
  • Political nescience is no excuse today for any member of society to opt or or not care. —  The Latest on Air America
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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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/ˈnɛʃɪəns/
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