Crossword-Solution: NESCIENCE 9 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Nescience n. Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.

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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.
The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study Thomas Henry Huxley 2001
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.
The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 2001
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.
Time's Laughingstocks Thomas Hardy 2014
But none replies; No warnings loom, nor whisperings To open out my limitings, And Nescience mutely muses: When a man falls he lies.
Wessex Poems and Other Verses Thomas Hardy 2015
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.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 Richard F. Burton 2001

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…
Thomas Henry Huxley The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study
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.
John Ruskin Unto This Last
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Used 1 time in crossword archives (1945).