nescience
/ˈnɛʃəns/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Algernon, in a condition of masculine nescience, lets himself become engaged to a woman of whom he knows nothing."
- "The theory of nescience is but the obverse of the fact of science."
Etymology
From Latin nescientia, from the present participle of nescire.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: nescientia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnɛʃəns/
- British English: /ˈnɛsɪəns/