Definition of "nescience" []

• Absence of knowledge or awareness; ignorance. (noun)
• Agnosticism. (noun)

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• "However, your "Why cant people just understand some people just arent right in the head?" represents a particularly useless flavor of active nescience."
• "The narrator strives to distinguish himself from those who exhibit nescience in relation to the attack."
• "What is originally just foolishness, stupidity, or nescience becomes something much more morally serious when you double down on it."