as in ignorance
the state of being unaware or uninformed
the appalling nescience of today's high schoolers concerning international affairs
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Recent Examples of nescience
But this time her nescience was justified.
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Matthew Continetti, National Review, 18 Jan. 2025
Critics pounced on his gaffes questioning evolution and asserting that vegetation caused pollution, but, as with Trump, Reagan’s backers cared little about these blunders or his nescience over public affairs.
—Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2020
Matthew Continetti, National Review, 18 Jan. 2025
Critics pounced on his gaffes questioning evolution and asserting that vegetation caused pollution, but, as with Trump, Reagan’s backers cared little about these blunders or his nescience over public affairs.
—Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nescience
ignorance
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Knowledge-wise, science may be advancing, but, politically, its powers of persuasion are in retreat, in a moment defined, in many ways, by ignorance and narrow-minded grievance.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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The best romance fiction has the ability to fundamentally change the genre at its core, offering happy endings where only ignorance has existed.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Nescience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nescience. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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