nescient
nescient · nescients
An ignorant personAn ignorant person.
US/ˈnɛʃənt/
Meaning
2 sensesAn ignorant person.
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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