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Nescience

noun
1.
Ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs).  Synonyms: ignorantness, unknowing, unknowingness.





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"Nescience" Quotes from Famous Books



... who shamest sun in morning sheen * The branch confounding, yet with nescience blest; Would Heaven I wot an Time shall bring return * And quench the fires which flame unmanifest,— Bring us together in a close embrace, * Thy cheek upon my cheek, thy breast abreast! Who saith, In Love dwells sweetness? when in ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton
... rather of nescience or no-knowledge, he gives in La Saisiaz, Ferishtah's Fancies, The Parleyings, and Asolando—in all his later and more reflective poems, in fact. It must, I think, be held to be his deliberate and final view—and ...
— Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher • Henry Jones


Words linked to "Nescience" :   unknowing, ignorance, ignorantness, nescient, unknowingness


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