Nes'cience noun [ Latin nescientia , from nesciens , present participle of nescire not to know; ne not + scire to know.] Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. « God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine.» Bp. Hal... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/N/16
(Lat. nesciens, ignorant) A state of ignorance such as is professed by the agnostic. See Agnosticism. -- L.W. Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21203