Benighted vs Nescience - What's the difference?

As an adjective benighted

is plunged into darkness.

is (label)(benight).

the absence of knowledge; ignorance, especially of orthodox beliefs.

(en adjective)

plunged into darkness

overtaken by night

* 1936 , Robert Frost, "Desert Places"

And lonely as it is, that loneliness

Will be more lonely ere it will be less —

A blanker whiteness of benighted snow

With no expression, nothing to express.

lacking knowledge or education; unenlightened

(head)

(label)(benight)

(-)

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,

To lapse from knowledge into nescience is always possible—there is no law of God or man forbidding it.

(philosophy) The doctrine that nothing is actually knowable.

* 1895 , J. G. Schurman, "Agnosticism," The Philosophical Review , vol. 4, no. 3, p. 244,

The theory of nescience is but the obverse of the fact of science.