nescience

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
nescience
    n 1: ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) [syn:
         {ignorantness}, {nescience}, {unknowing}, {unknowingness}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   [1913 Webster]

         God fetched it about for me, in that absence and
         nescience of mine.                       --Bp. Hall.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "nescience":
      agnosticism, blankmindedness, callowness, empty-headedness,
      greenhornism, greenness, hiatus of learning, ignorance,
      ignorantism, ignorantness, inanity, inexperience, innocence,
      know-nothingism, knowledge-gap, lack of information, obscurantism,
      rawness, simpleness, simplicity, tabula rasa, unacquaintance,
      unacquaintedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unintelligence,
      unknowing, unknowingness, unripeness, vacuity, vacuousness
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