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unfamiliarity

noun

Etymology

From un- + familiarity.

  1. derived from familiāris
  2. inherited from familiar,familier
  3. suffixed as familiarity — “familiar + ity”
  4. formed as unfamiliarity — “un- + familiarity”

Definitions

  1. Lack of familiarity

    Lack of familiarity; ignorance or inexperience.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unfamiliarity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA