NOUN
  1. ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)
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How To Use nescience In A Sentence

  • For a literary scholar who rightly prides himself on his engagement with historical evidence, this resolute nescience deserves attention. The Times Literary Supplement
  • A man fallen in the ocean of nescience cannot be saved simply by rescuing his outward dress - the gross material body.
  • But because the ambiguities of accidentalism at this time had to be conceptualized by alternative characterizations of God as either the rational or the capricious Uncreated Being, the result for men was fideistic optimism or nescience. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • This living entity, covered by the influence of nescience, exists in different forms in the material condition.
  • It reminds me somewhat of the collusion between cynicism and innocence, in which nescience is the very form that jaded dyspepsia takes.
  • This is not to deny Lutyens his aesthetic preferences, but it is to point out that preferences cannot legitimize or wipe out a record of nescience and disdain, and of taking the credit without taking any of the blame.
  • I managed to occasionally inject into the sphacelated sheet a quasi-intelligent idea, to disguise its feculence with a breath of sentiment that by contrast seemed an air from Araby the blest; but the stupid ignorance and dollar-worshiping of the management soon dragged it back into the noisome depths of hopeless nescience and subter-brutish degradation. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
  • Past, future, and present, these three times are imperceptible, an ignorance or nescience that is not real, only false.
  • O Arjuna, nescience, inertness, neglectfulness and also illusion; when these arise the mode of ignorance predominates.
  • A man fallen in the ocean of nescience cannot be saved simply by rescuing his outward dress - the gross material body.
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