nescient
/ˈnɛsɪənt
/adjective literary
Lacking knowledge; ignorant: I ventured into the new Korean restaurant with some equally nescient companions...
- Echoing Goethe's Romantic interpretation and adulation, Belinsky's Bard ‘understood heaven, earth, and hell’ but was, nonetheless, an ‘ignoramus’, nescient of the meaning of his own plays.
- This means I can get whipped up into a state of ill-informed indignation, because if I'm going to get indignant it may as well be in quite a pompous and nescient fashion.
- The cluelessness in his expression's so nescient that it's something close to profound.
Derivatives
nescience
/ noun ...- It reminds me somewhat of the collusion between cynicism and innocence, in which nescience is the very form that jaded dyspepsia takes.
- Past, future, and present, these three times are imperceptible, an ignorance or nescience that is not real, only false.
- This is not to deny Lutyens his aesthetic preferences, but it is to point out that preferences cannot legitimize or wipe out a record of nescience and disdain, and of taking the credit without taking any of the blame.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin nescient- 'not knowing', from the verb nescire, from ne- 'not' + scire 'know'.
Rhymes
- converser
- conversion
- conversion factor
- conversion rate
- conversion van
- convert
- converted rice
- converter
- converter reactor
- convertibility
- convertible
- convertor
- convert something to one's own use
- convex
- convex envelope
- convex hull
- convexity
- convexly
- convexo-concave
- convexo-convex
- convex programming
- convey
- conveyable
- conveyance
- conveyancer