nescience

The Americansʼ good and honest intentions were only equalled by their nescience of the Malay character.

Can the Churinga nanja and reincarnation beliefs have set up nescience of obvious facts among the Arunta?

That nescience, says Mr. Frazer, "may be explained easily enough from the habits and modes of thought of savage men."

Perhaps all the science that is not at bottom physical science is only pretentious nescience.

Nor is he, like Shakespeare's biographer, reduced to choose between the starvation of nescience and the windy diet of conjecture.