nescience
1nescience — ⇒NESCIENCE, subst. fém. Littér. Absence de savoir, de connaissance. Synon. ignorance, méconnaissance. [Des paysannes croyantes] sont dégrevées du poids affreux du doute (...) elles possèdent la nescience presque absolue du Mal (HUYSMANS, Cathédr …
2Nescience — Nes cience, n. [L. nescientia, fr. nesciens, p. pr. of nescire not to know; ne not + scire to know.] Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. [1913 Webster] God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall. [1913… …
3nescience — I noun blindness, darkness, greenness, ignorance, ignoration, incognizance, inexperience, lack of awareness, lack of knowledge, lack of learning, naivete, rawness, unawareness, uncomprehension, unenlightenment, uninformedness, unintelligence,… …
4nescience — (n.) ignorance, 1610s, from L.L. nescientia, from nesciens (see NESCIENT (Cf. nescient)) …
5nescience — noun /ˈnɛsɪəns,ˈnɛʃəns/ a) Ignorance; the absence of knowledge, especially of orthodox beliefs. To lapse from knowledge into nescience is always possible there is no law of God or man forbidding it. b) The doctrine that nothing is actually… …
6nescience — (entrée créée par le supplément) (nè ssi an s ) s. f. État de celui qui ne sait pas, qui n a pas de savoir. • Dès le début, la religion a fait les plus grands efforts pour unir plus ou moins de science à la nescience ; la science a dès le début …
7nescience — noun Etymology: Late Latin nescientia, from Latin nescient , nesciens, present participle of nescire not to know, from ne not + scire to know more at no, science Date: 1612 lack of knowledge or awareness ; ignorance • nescient adjective …
8nescience — nescient, adj. /nesh euhns, nesh ee euhns, nes ee /, n. 1. lack of knowledge; ignorance. 2. agnosticism. [1605 15; < LL nescientia ignorance, equiv. to ne not + scientia knowledge; see SCIENCE] * * * …
9nescience — Synonyms and related words: agnosticism, blankmindedness, callowness, empty headedness, greenhornism, greenness, hiatus of learning, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, inanity, inexperience, innocence, know nothingism, knowledge gap, lack of… …
10nescience — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. naïveté, inexperience, unawareness; see ignorance 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The condition of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or learning: benightedness, ignorance, illiteracy, illiterateness. See KNOWLEDGE. 2 …
