nescience

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: nes=cience

CIDE DICTIONARY

nescience, 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."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

nescience

agnosticism, blankmindedness, callowness, empty-headedness, greenhornism, greenness, hiatus of learning, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, inanity, inexperience, innocence, know-nothingism, knowledge-gap, lack of information, obscurantism, rawness, simpleness, simplicity, tabula rasa, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unintelligence, unknowing, unknowingness, unripeness, vacuity, vacuousness

ROGET THESAURUS

nescience

Ignorance

N ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse, unfamiliarity, unacquaintance, unconsciousness, darkness, blindness, incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity, unknown quantities, x, y, z, sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground, dark ages, smattering, sciolism, glimmering, dilettantism, bewilderment, incapacity, pedantry, charlatanry, charlatism, Philister, Philistine, ignorant, nescient, unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised, unapprized, unwitting, unweeting, unconscious, witless, weetless, a stranger to, unconversant, uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened, Philistine, behind the age, shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate, unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish, empty-headed, dizzy, wooly-headed, pedantic, in the dark, benighted, belated, blinded, blindfolded, hoodwinked, misinformed, au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault, at sea, caught tripping, unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived, concealed, novel, ignorantly, unawares, for anything, for aught one knows, not that one knows, Int, God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows, ignorance never settles a question, quantum animis erroris inest!, small Latin and less Greek, that unlettered small-knowing soul, there is no darkness but ignorance.