| Front | nescience \NESH-uhn(t)s; NESH-ee-uhn(t)s\ |
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| Back | noun Ignorance. [From Latin ne- (not) + scire (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split) that has also given us schism, ski, shin, science, conscience, nice, scienter, adscititious, and sciolist.] |
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