Crossword-Solution: NESCIENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nescience | n. | Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “NESCIENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| General ignorance. | 1 answer |
| Lack of knowledge | 2 answers |
| Gullibility. | 12 answers |
| guiltlessness | 12 answers |
| trustfulness | 12 answers |
| credulity | 12 answers |
| obliviousness | 13 answers |
| illiteracy | 20 answers |
| gaucherie | 30 answers |
| Naiveté | 37 answers |
| unfamiliarity | 37 answers |
| Unawareness | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with NESCIENCE (5)
The science of the present day is as full of this particular form of intellectual shadow-worship as is the nescience of ignorant ages.
But in their nescience of the facts, it would need more than death to melt them into a kindness to a member of the Convention, for death was the only thing they had in common, and death, as we have seen, had not conquered them.
But the disease of feeling germed, And primal rightness took the tinct of wrong; Ere nescience shall be reaffirmed How long, how long? NEW YEAR’S EVE “I HAVE finished another year,” said God, “In grey, green, white, and brown; I have strewn the leaf upon the sod, Sealed up the worm within the clod, And let the last sun down.” “And what’s the good of it?” I said.
But none replies; No warnings loom, nor whisperings To open out my limitings, And Nescience mutely muses: When a man falls he lies.
And he repeated the verses of the love-distraught poet, "O thou who shamest sun in morning sheen * The branch confounding, yet with nescience blest; Would Heaven I wot an Time shall bring return * And quench the fires which flame unmanifest,— Bring us together in a close embrace, * Thy cheek upon my cheek, thy breast abreast! Who saith, In Love dwells sweetness? when in Love * Are bitterer days than Aloës[FN#63] bitterest." —And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say.
Quotes with NESCIENCE (2)
It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which that culture is conveyed, and with its necessary concomitant, a constant elevation of the standard of veracity, the end of the evolution of theology will be like its beginning — it will cease to have any relation to ethics. I suppose that, so long as the human mind exists, it will not escape its deep-seated insti…
So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is therefore a science founded on nescience. . . . This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. . . . It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1945).