Word of The Day: Nescience

NESCIENCE ( \NESH-uhn(t)s; NESH-ee-uhn(t)s\), noun:

1. Lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance.
2. Nescience is from Latin nescire, "not to know," from ne-, "not" + scire, "to know." It is related to science. Nescient is the adjective form.

Ex:

The notion has taken hold that every barometric fluctuation must demonstrate climate change. This anecdotal case for global warming is mostly nonsense, driven by nescience of a basic point, from statistics and probability, that the weather is always weird somewhere.

-- Gregg Easterbrook, "Warming Up", The New Republic, November 8, 1999