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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 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/47328/159183/159183"< AOL users click here </a< \-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/ 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.
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