ˈne]sh(ē)ən(t)s, ]sēən- also ˈnē]\ noun
( -s )
Etymology: Late Latin nescientia, from Latin nescient, nesciens (present participle of nescire not to know, from ne-, negative prefix + scire to know) + -ia -y — more at no , science
1. : lack of knowledge or awareness : ignorance
his apparent nescience of contemporary literature was not a pose — A.T.Quiller-Couch
2. : a conviction or doctrine that ultimate or immaterial realities cannot be known through the rational processes of the mind : agnosticism