insciencen.
/ˈɪnʃɪəns/ Now rare.
The condition of not knowing; want of knowledge; nescience, ignorance.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun]
unwisdomc825
nutelnessa1200
ignorance?c1225
uncunningc1290
uncunnessa1300
unwittingnessa1300
unknowledging1357
lewdness1362
unsciencec1374
mislearninga1382
simplenessa1382
unknowinga1382
ignorancec1384
unwittingc1384
simplessec1391
rudenessc1400
unweeting14..
lewdhead1401
misknowing?a1425
simplicityc1450
unknowledge1470
discognisancec1475
unknowingness1486
non-knowledge1503
ignorancy1526
simplehead1543
unlearnedness1555
ignoration1563
rusticity1571
ignorantness1574
ignoring1578
inscience1578
ignoramus1583
ingramness1589
lack-learning1590
idiotism1598
ignoramus1598
idiocy1605
nesciencea1625
nescio1637
inerudition1685
unawareness1847
agnosia1879
moronism1922
cluelessness1960
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man Epist. Chirurg. sig. Aiiij Rather..a meane to indurate the cataract of inscience, then to..take it away.
1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 4 Are his speaches vnperfect? Sauor they of inscience.
1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal i. i. 3 Their inscience of the natural cause.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 179 Not to know things without the Arch of our intellectuals..is..rather inscience than ignorance in man.
1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 179 (note) On the part of the learned author..behold still the same pleasantry; or still the same simplicity and inscience.
a1896 E. W. Benson Cyprian (1897) 83 (note) [His] special pleading is matched by his inscience of every technical law term.
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