Absence vs Nescience - What's the difference?
absence | nescience |
A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away.
* (rfdate) (w) 2:12
Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
* (rfdate) - Kent
Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.
Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
* (rfdate), (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* 1824-1829? , (w), (Imaginary Conversations)
(medical) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
(fencing) Lack of contact between blades.
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The absence of knowledge; ignorance, especially of orthodox beliefs.
* 1911 , , "Notes on the Philosophy of Henri Bergson," The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods , vol. 8, no. 26, p. 720,
(philosophy) The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.
* 1895 , J. G. Schurman, "Agnosticism," The Philosophical Review , vol. 4, no. 3, p. 244,
As nouns the difference between absence and nescience
is that absence is a state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away while nescience is the absence of knowledge; ignorance, especially of orthodox beliefs.absence
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en-noun)- Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence .
- In the absence of conventional law.
- Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind.
- To conquer that abstraction which is called absence .
Derived terms
* absence makes the heart grow fonderAntonyms
* (state of being away) presence * existence, possession, sufficiencyReferences
nescience
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Noun
(-)- To lapse from knowledge into nescience is always possible—there is no law of God or man forbidding it.
- The theory of nescience is but the obverse of the fact of science.