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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-457/
- Published: 2025-11-08T17:15:34.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-08T17:15:33.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

nescience (noun) -

: lack of knowledge or awareness : ignorance

Source : [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nescience?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Eighteenth-century British poet, essayist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson once said, "There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it." He probably knew a thing or two about the history of the word nescience, which evolved from a combination of the Latin prefix ne-, meaning "not," and scire, a verb meaning "to know." And he may also have known that scire is an ancestor of science, a word whose original meaning in English was "knowledge."

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