Pronounced: fuh-RAH-go, noun
Notes: I did not pronounce this word right, but I was close to the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word nescience means “lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
I did not properly parse this word; for some reason, I thought that the prefix “ne-” or “nes-” means “new” and that error threw off what I thought was the meaning. Our word is a combination of the Latin prefix ne- (not) and scire (to know). Note that scire is also the ancestor of “science”, which originally meant “knowledge”.
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