nescience
Collocations
3ADJ.
honest, possible
PREP.
from, into, than
ADV.
always
Definitions
noun
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.
The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.
The theory of nescience is but the obverse of the fact of science.
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Synonyms
noun — ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)
- ignorantness
- unknowing
- unknowingness
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3Better to have honest nescience than to have militant ignorance.
WiktionaryTo lapse from knowledge into nescience is always possible—there is no law of God or man forbidding it.
WiktionaryMany 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 nescie
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