Synonyms for nescience
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : nesh-uh ns, nesh-ee-uh ns, nes-ee- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɛʃ əns, ˈnɛʃ i əns, ˈnɛs i- |
Top 10 synonyms for nescience Other synonyms for the word nescience
- benightedness
- empty-headedness
- half-knowledge
- illiterateness
- incapacity
- incomprehension
- innocence
- inscience
- insensitivity
- lack of education
- mental incapacity
- naiveté
- oblivion
- obliviousness
- obtuseness
- philistinism
- rawness
- sciolism
- shallowness
- simplicity
- unawareness
- unconsciousness
- uncouthness
- unenlightenment
- unfamiliarity
- unscholarliness
- vagueness
Définition of nescience
Origin :- "ignorance," 1610s, from Late Latin nescientia, from nesciens (see nescient).
- noun ignorance
- In such a naked state of nescience, Valentin had a view and a method of his own.
- Extract from : « The Innocence of Father Brown » by G. K. Chesterton
- Professor Tyndall's own address terminates, not in science, but nescience.
- Extract from : « Nineteenth Century Questions » by James Freeman Clarke
- Ignorance cannot convince knowledge by repeated asseveration of its nescience.
- Extract from : « The Way of Initiation » by Rudolf Steiner
- What we call the historic sense is not consistent with a state of nescience.
- Extract from : « The Gentle Reader » by Samuel McChord Crothers
- He wished to know the reality of our nescience as well as of our science.
- Extract from : « Faraday As A Discoverer » by John Tyndall
- Nor can Nescience by itself be the cause, and it is of a uniform nature.
- Extract from : « The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya » by Translator: George Thibaut
- When the porter was questioned about Prothero his nescience was profound.
- Extract from : « The Research Magnificent » by H. G. Wells
- The nescience of the Agnostic philosophy is the proof from experience that to be carnally minded is Death.
- Extract from : « Natural Law in the Spiritual World » by Henry Drummond
- On the other hand, as the limits of science expand, so do the limits of nescience become more definite.
- Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) » by John Morley
- Such an avowal of nescience is an implicit assertion of an immeasurable insight.
- Extract from : « To My Younger Brethren » by Handley C. G. Moule
Antonyms for nescience
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