unfamiliarity
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + familiarity.
Noun
[edit]unfamiliarity (countable and uncountable, plural unfamiliarities)
- 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
[edit]lack of familiarity
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