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Synonyms for nescient

holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible

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uneducated in general

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If I may borrow one of the more inventive verbal contortions from our fearless and nescient leader, I would say that I seriously "misunder-estimated" the task of illustrating Jump!
Perhaps we have always been here--our consciousnesses nescient in those waters, our words unformed on the breeze--awaiting this ripple in time when our thoughts become actions.
He is not a modern day Ernest Hemingway, he is just a benighted, nescient, anthropocentric moron who must be kept away from all animals.
Instead, it serves only to provide the nescient student of Texas history with helpful background on the allegedly broken Cherokee treaty.
Now, as American and European insurance companies are flocking east to claim a piece of the world's largest market, they are finding a country that is still awkward with foreigners and an industry in its nescient stage.
He was able to perform this extraordinary deed of forgiveness and charity by reflecting upon "the futility of triumph or protest or vindication: the inanity of extolled virtue: the lethargy of nescient matter: the apathy of the stars" (17.2224-26).
In other words, an independent British Northern Cameroon never existed at any point in history, and no one was ever its 'citizen.'So which country do Buhari's nescient lawyers expect people born in British Northern Cameroon to go and be president of?
Until recently I spent my whole life totally nescient of the word nescient.
Remarkable for her articulate eyewitness account which is peppered throughout with her black-and-white photography, "From Japan With Love" is as engaging as it is informed, making it very highly recommended reading for anyone with an interest in the post-war Japan reformation, mid-twentieth century Japanese culture, and the transition of Japan from a defeated nation to its nescient emergence as a western style democracy..