unacquaintance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + acquaintance.
Noun
[edit]unacquaintance (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being unacquainted; unfamiliarity with something.
- 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
- The first organs which Gall excogitated, he placed in the region of the sinus; and it is manifest he was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity.