Usually means: Lacking knowledge or awareness; ignorant.
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  1. nescient: Merriam-Webster
  2. nescient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nescient: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. nescient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  10. nescient: FreeDictionary.org
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(Note: See nescience as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nescient)

noun:  An ignorant person.
noun:  One who holds that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters (the unmeasurable) or ultimate causes is impossible.
adjective:  Ignorant, unlearned.
adjective:  Unbelieving.

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