| 词汇 | nescience |
| 词源 | nescience. Though nescience (from the Latin nesciens, “igno- rant”) can be a synonym for ignorance, some writers make an important and useful distinction between the words. While ig- norance is “not knowing something one should reasonably be expected to know,” nescience means “not knowing something one cannot be reasonably expected to know.” |
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