layman vs nescient

layman

noun
  • A generally ignorant person. 

  • A common person. 

  • Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy. 

  • Lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order. 

  • A person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject. 

  • Someone who is not a professional in a given field. 

nescient

noun
  • An ignorant person. 

  • One who holds that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters (the unmeasurable) or ultimate causes is impossible. 

adj
  • ignorant, unlearned 

  • unbelieving 

How often have the words layman and nescient occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )