nescience
noun/ˈnɛsɪəns/UK/ˈnɛʃəns/US
Etymology
From Latin nescientia, from the present participle of nescire.
- derived from nescientia
Definitions
The absence of knowledge, especially of orthodox beliefs.
- Better to have honest nescience than to have militant ignorance.
- To lapse from knowledge into nescience is always possible—there is no law of God or man forbidding it.
- Many a day we had been twenty-two out of the twenty-four hours in the saddle, each taking it in turn to lead through the darkness while the others let their heads nod forward over the pommel in nescience.
The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.
- The theory of nescience is but the obverse of the fact of science.
The neighborhood
- neighbornescient
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for nescience. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA