unfamiliarity

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ familiarity.

Noun

unfamiliarity (countable and uncountable, plural unfamiliarities)

1. Lack of familiarity; ignorance or inexperience.

   Due to my unfamiliarity with the library's catalog system, it took several hours to find the book.

   • 1989 January, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal‎^[1], volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 128:

     Such insights can, however, not be expected from a state of near-total unfamiliarity with what has been going on in a field: innocence may be a good thing, ignorance certainly is not.

Translations

lack of familiarity

• Georgian: უჩვეულობა (učveuloba)
• Greek: άγνοια (el) f (ágnoia)
• Irish: aduaine f
• Latin: īnsolentia f
• Macedonian: непознатост f (nepoznatost)
• Manx: joarreeaght f, neuainjys m, anoayllys m