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synonyms for nescience

  • bewilderment
  • blindness
  • callowness
  • crudeness
  • darkness
  • denseness
  • disregard
  • dumbness
  • fog
  • illiteracy
  • incapacity
  • incomprehension
  • innocence
  • insensitivity
  • oblivion
  • obliviousness
  • obtuseness
  • philistinism
  • rawness
  • sciolism
  • shallowness
  • simplicity
  • unawareness
  • unconsciousness
  • uncouthness
  • unenlightenment
  • unfamiliarity
  • vagueness
  • benightedness
  • empty-headedness
  • half-knowledge
  • illiterateness
  • inscience
  • lack of education
  • mental incapacity
  • naiveté
  • unscholarliness
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antonyms for nescience

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  • cognizance
  • understanding
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How to use nescience in a sentence

The Americansʼ good and honest intentions were only equalled by their nescience of the Malay character.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN
Can the Churinga nanja and reincarnation beliefs have set up nescience of obvious facts among the Arunta?
THE SECRET OF THE TOTEMANDREW LANG
That nescience, says Mr. Frazer, "may be explained easily enough from the habits and modes of thought of savage men."
THE SECRET OF THE TOTEMANDREW LANG
Perhaps all the science that is not at bottom physical science is only pretentious nescience.
CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSIONGEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Nor is he, like Shakespeare's biographer, reduced to choose between the starvation of nescience and the windy diet of conjecture.
LIFE OF JOHN MILTONRICHARD GARNETT
Whether this be so or not, it is difficult to see how any idea of kinship could arise from such a condition of nescience.
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As long as it is the object of Nescience, there are applied to it the categories of devotee, object of devotion, and the like101.
THE VEDANTA-SUTRAS WITH THE COMMENTARY BY SANKARACARYATRANSLATOR: GEORGE THIBAUT
And the internal organ can be considered as acting and enjoying, all the less as it is a mere presentment of Nescience.
THE VEDANTA-SUTRAS WITH THE COMMENTARY BY SANKARACARYATRANSLATOR: GEORGE THIBAUT
The term 'darkness' here denotes Nescience, the cause of grief, and so on.
THE VEDANTA-SUTRAS WITH THE COMMENTARY BY SANKARACARYATRANSLATOR: GEORGE THIBAUT
For the continued existence of the individual soul as such is altogether owing to the relation in which it stands to Nescience.
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WORDS RELATED TO NESCIENCE

  • backwardness
  • illiteracy
  • illiterateness
  • lack of education
  • lack of knowledge
  • nescience
  • unenlightenment
  • unknowing
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