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What does nescience mean?

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Noun
  1. The absence of knowledge; ignorance, especially of orthodox beliefs.
  2. (philosophy) The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.
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Professor Tyndall's own address terminates, not in science, but nescience.
Algernon, in a condition of masculine nescience, lets himself become engaged to a woman of whom he knows nothing.
The nescience of the Agnostic philosophy is the proof from experience that to be carnally minded is Death.
Past, future, and present, these three times are imperceptible, an ignorance or nescience that is not real, only false.
Such an avowal of nescience is an implicit assertion of an immeasurable insight.
I've no nescience about the role my privilege played in my extraction from the site of impending violence.

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