nescience

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The plane of consciousness in which he had so long moved, with a memory running back five years and there ending in a blank wall of nescience, had made him cunning and shifty—necessarily so.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson

Whether this be so or not, it is difficult to see how any idea of kinship could arise from such a condition of nescience.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

Cousin made no reply to Hamilton’s criticism beyond alleging that Hamilton’s doctrine necessarily restricted human knowledge and certainty to psychology and logic, and destroyed metaphysics by introducing nescience and uncertainty into its highest sphere—theodicy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

It is a nescience whereby human aspirations are cribbed within ruled lines and made to balance on the opposite side.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

The question was a marvel of innocent nescience.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank