nescience

Questions about nescience

What does nescience mean?

nescience means "ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)".

How many syllables are in nescience?

nescience has 2 syllables and divides as ne-science under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for nescience?

Close synonyms include ignorantness, unknowing, unknowingness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nescience a common word?

nescience is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.