nescience Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)
    ignorantness; unknowingness; unknowing.

WordNet

Nes"cience noun
Etymology
L. nescientia, fr. nesciens, p.pr. of nescire not to know; ne not + scire to know.
Definitions
  1. Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.
    God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.

Webster 1913