Today's wwftd is... inscient

[msesheta]

The worthless word for the day is: inscient

Here's one of those opposite thingnames*, brought about by the duplicity of the in- prefix

[in- + L. scire, to know] 

1) now rare : lacking knowledge; nescient, ignorant
2) rare : having inward knowledge or insight

*Janus word, contronym, or enantiodrome

"In the thirties the Oxford mind was inscient."
- The Speaker, 10 Dec. 1898

Gaze on, with inscient vision toward the sun,
And, from his visceral heat, pluck out the roots
Of light beyond him.
- E.B. Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856)

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