nescience🔊

The absence of knowledge, especially of orthodox beliefs.

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Many 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 nescience.

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Algernon, in a condition of masculine nescience, lets himself become engaged to a woman of whom he knows nothing.

Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae

(philosophy) The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.

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