nescience: Dictionary.com Word of the Day /-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\\ BECOME A FOOL! For stock ideas, retire-early strategies, and money-saving tips Register for free with The Motley Fool  You'll receive our "13 Steps to Investing Foolishly" guide, free Plus, access to our irreverent take on all things financial. http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/47328/159183/159183   AOL users click here  \\-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/    Word of the Day for Monday March 11, 2002:    nescience \\NESH-uhn(t)s; NESH-ee-uhn(t)s\\, noun:    Lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance.      The  ancients  understood  that  too  much  knowledge could      actually  impede  human  functioning -- this at a time when      the  encroachments  on  global nescience were comparatively      few.      --Cullen  Murphy,  "DNA Fatigue," [1]The Atlantic, November      1997      He  fought  on  our behalf in the war that finally matters:      against   nescience,   against  inadvertence,  against  the      supposition that anything is anything else.      --Hugh  Kenner,  "On  the Centenary of James Joyce," [2]New      York Times, January 31, 1982      The notion has taken hold that every barometric fluctuation      must  demonstrate  climate  change. This anecdotal case for      global warming is mostly nonsense, driven by nescience of a      basic  point,  from  statistics  and  probability, that the      weather is always weird somewhere.      --Gregg  Easterbrook  "Warming  Up,"  [3]The  New Republic,      November 8, 1999      _________________________________________________________    Nescience  is  from  Latin  nescire,  "not to know," from ne-,    "not"  +  scire, "to know." It is related to science. Nescient    is the adjective form. References    1. http://www.theatlantic.com/    2. http://www.nytimes.com/    3. http://www.thenewrepublic.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as:  matt.motley@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-357530C@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2002 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.