insipience

insipience
(entrée créée par le supplément)
(in-si-pi-an-s') s. f.
Défaut de lumière, de sagesse.
   Si la nécessité des choses ne faisait justice de l'insipience des hommes, PROUDHON Réform. exploit. chemins de fer, p. 98, Paris, 1868.
   Lat. insipientia, de in.... négatif, et sapientia (voy. sapience).

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré. . 1872-1877.

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