nescient

Other forms of nescient

comparative

nescienter·

superlative

nescientest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nescient

What does nescient mean?

nescient means "holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nescient?

nescient has 2 syllables: ne-scient. The stress falls on "ne".

What is another word for nescient?

Close synonyms include unbelieving, ignorant, unlearned, unlettered. 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 nescient a common word?

nescient 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.