Search Result for "nescience": 
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs);
[syn: ignorantness, nescience, unknowing, unknowingness]


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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

nescience n 1: ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) [syn: ignorantness, nescience, unknowing, unknowingness]
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