Usually means: Lack of knowledge or awareness.
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  1. nescience: Merriam-Webster
  2. nescience: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nescience: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nescience: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nescience: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nescience, nescience: Wordnik
  7. nescience: Wiktionary
  8. nescience: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. nescience: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Nescience, nescience: Dictionary.com
  11. Nescience: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Nescience: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. nescience: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. nescience: Rhymezone
  15. Nescience: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. nescience: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. nescience: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. nescience: FreeDictionary.org
  19. nescience: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. nescience: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. nescience: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The absence of knowledge, especially of orthodox beliefs.
▸ noun:  (philosophy) The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.

Similar:
unknowingness, unknowing, ignorantness, unknowledge, nonknowledge, agnosis, knowledgelessness, inscience, nonfaith, unbelief, more...

Opposite:
omniscience, knowledge, awareness

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cosmic, beginningless, primal, universal, positive, individual, such, own, causal, opposite, total

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Similar:
unknowingness, unknowing, ignorantness, unknowledge, nonknowledge, agnosis, knowledgelessness, inscience, nonfaith, unbelief, more...

Opposite:
omniscience, knowledge, awareness

Adjectives:
cosmic, beginningless, primal, universal, positive, individual, such, own, causal, opposite, total

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     off-white,     ivory, more...



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