Crossword clues for nescience
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nescience \Nes"cience\, n. [L. nescientia, fr. nesciens, p. pr. of nescire not to know; ne not + scire to know.] Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.
God fetched it about for me, in that absence and
nescience of mine.
--Bp. Hall.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ignorance," 1610s, from Late Latin nescientia, from nesciens (see nescient).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The absence of knowledge; ignorance, especially of orthodox beliefs. 2 (context philosophy English) The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.
WordNet
n. ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) [syn: ignorantness, unknowing, unknowingness]
Usage examples of "nescience".
In others, one must learn to fuse knowledge with nescience, sound with silence, self with annihilation, life with death, the universe with the quark.
And yet more drops dissolved, bringing to the shadowed mote quicksilver knowledge of life, all life, and the death of nescience in an iridescent implosion of knowledge.
Some, too, have told at whiles that rightfully Its warefulness, Its care, this planet lost When in her early growth and crudity By bad mad acts of severance men contrived, Working such nescience by their own device.
Since all authority and government are based on force, the master class, with its burden of omniscience, faces the servile class, with its burden of nescience, precisely as a highwayman faces his victim.
Galapagos may be simulating nescience of our ensconcement behind his bastioned ramparts?
And out of this communal parturition, lethal to the seven, who now all fell headlong into nescience and non-entity, the single new-born spirit took wing.
I rolled up my coat, placed it under my head for a pillow, wound up my alarm clock, and plunged gratefully back into that Nescience from which I had so unwisely awakened.
At night, before sinking into the dark waters of Nescience, I began having vivid dreams in which Myra and I did some remarkable things.
Then I rolled up my coat, placed it under my head for a pillow, wound up my alarm clock, and plunged gratefully back into that Nescience from which I had so unwisely awakened.
The Grand Unctator of the Natural Rite will conduct the eulogy and guide his monic spire toward the Lambent Nescience.