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Jun 23, 2010
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with Anu Gargnescient
PRONUNCIATION:
(NESH-uhnt, NESH-ee-uhnt, NES-ee-uhnt)
MEANING:
adjective:
Lacking knowledge or awareness.
ETYMOLOGY:
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.
USAGE:
"The most interesting character development occurs in Zeta-Jones's
transformation from nescient wife to underground businesswoman as
she tries to preserve her husband's business."Matthew Hunt; Traffic; Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia); Jan 12, 2001. See more usage examples of nescient in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
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