Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Nescience \Nes"cience\, n. [L. nescientia, fr. nesciens, p. pr.
   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. Hall.

Source : WordNet®

nescience
     n : ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) [syn: {ignorantness},
          {unknowing}, {unknowingness}]