Meaning

2 senses

  1. An ignorant person.

  2. One who holds that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters (the unmeasurable) or ultimate causes is impossible.

Origin

Ultimately from Latin nesciēns (“ignorant, unknowing”), the present participle of nesciō (

Ultimately from Latin nesciēns (“ignorant, unknowing”), the present participle of nesciō (“to don’t know, to be ignorant of”).

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Forms

plural: nescients
Singularnescient
Pluralnescients

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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