Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Absence of knowledge or awareness; ignorance.
- noun Agnosticism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of not knowing; lack of knowledge; ignorance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
absence ofknowledge ;ignorance , especially oforthodox beliefs . - noun philosophy The
doctrine thatnothing is actuallyknowable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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However, your "Why cant people just understand some people just arent right in the head?" represents a particularly useless flavor of active nescience.
Venezuela bans violent video games: a first-person guest essay - Boing Boing 2009
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It will fail because of exactly the IMHO nescience and disinformation pervading most of the movie-going public.
Leaked: MGM Internal Memo On Valkyrie’s Breathtaking Buzz Surge | /Film 2008
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What is originally just foolishness, stupidity, or nescience becomes something much more morally serious when you double down on it.
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The narrator strives to distinguish himself from those who exhibit nescience in relation to the attack.
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The narrator strives to distinguish himself from those who exhibit nescience in relation to the attack.
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The narrator strives to distinguish himself from those who exhibit nescience in relation to the attack.
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The narrator strives to distinguish himself from those who exhibit nescience in relation to the attack.
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My friends, the world is awash with insane rhetoric, a rhetoric that is spewed and conjured by half-baked holy men referencing centuries-old texts that were written during times of incalculable nescience.
Lionel: Obama in Cairo: The Immutable Sapience of the Good Book(s) 2009
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The catastrophe is the apparent enveloping nescience at the configuration of the Supreme Court and basic math.
Sonia Sotomayor and Louie-Louie and a truly weighty issue. 2009
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And hearken to the silence of the courtiers and grant-grubbers of Establishment Conservatism, whose mingled nescience and cowardice testify to the gutlessness and wicked stupidity of what passes for the Right.
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