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. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. --Bp. Hall. web1913

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