Synonyms & related words for nescience

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of nescience — including ignorantness, unknowingness, unknowing, ignorance, unawareness, agnosticism. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to nescience

Explore words related to nescience — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include inscience, nescient, incognizance, gnoseology, fideism, knowingness, intuitionalism, acatalepsy. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Synonyms for nescience

Common synonyms for nescience include ignorantness, unknowingness, unknowing, ignorance, unawareness, agnosticism, obscurantism — words that share a close meaning. Hover or tap any word on the map for its definition and part of speech.

Where does nescience come from?

The word nescience breaks down into 3 roots of Latin origin: ne-, from Latin ne (“not”); sci, from Latin scire (“to know”); and -ence, from Latin entia (“state of”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.