Nescience (Noun)
Meaning
Ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs).
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- Her unapologetic nescience regarding religious teachings caused concern among her more devout friends and family members.
- Their outspoken views against social norms demonstrated the community's growing nescience to what many consider long-established principles.
- After some discussion with theologians, his former nescience gave way to new questions, fuelling an increasingly analytical examination of long-held doctrine.
- When taken as truth without inspection, those particular convictions appear directly informed by wilful nescience and unconscious desire to validate themselves through long accepted certainties.
- Researchers acknowledged participants in their case studies harbored partial nescience of, or at the very least failed to consider a large majority of orthodox theory.