Definitions for nescience

nescience nesc·ience

Spelling: [nesh-uh ns, nesh-ee-uh ns, Nescience is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

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Definitions for nescience

noun

  1. lack of knowledge; ignorance.
  2. agnosticism.

Origin of nescience

1605-15; Late Latin nescientia ignorance, equivalent to ne- not + scientia knowledge; see science

Examples for nescience

He wished to know the reality of our nescience as well as of our science.

Professor Tyndall's own address terminates, not in science, but nescience.

Nor can nescience by itself be the cause, and it is of a uniform nature.

On the other hand, as the limits of science expand, so do the limits of nescience become more definite.

In such a naked state of nescience, Valentin had a view and a method of his own.

What we call the historic sense is not consistent with a state of nescience.

The nescience of the Agnostic philosophy is the proof from experience that to be carnally minded is Death.

When the porter was questioned about Prothero his nescience was profound.

Such an avowal of nescience is an implicit assertion of an immeasurable insight.

Ignorance cannot convince knowledge by repeated asseveration of its nescience.

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