Frugal Café Superb Word of the Day: Nescience
Vicki McClure Davidson | April 7, 2009
Word of the Day: nescience nescience NESH-uhn(t)s; NESH-ee-uhn(t)s, noun: Lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance. The ancients understood that too much knowledge could actually impede human functioning — this at a time when the encroachments on global nescience were comparatively few. – Cullen Murphy, “DNA Fatigue,” The Atlantic, November 1997. The notion has taken hold [...]
