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unfamiliarity

unfamiliarity noun: lack of familiarity; ignorance or inexperience.

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.
    • He let Sandy stand for a minute and then took the saddle off. Several more of these saddlings and unsaddlings followed. Then finally the saddle was cinched. Again Sandy repeated his pattern of calming down after the first unfamiliarity of a new experience had worn off. […] Before long Sandy...1954, Troy Nesbit [pseudonym; Franklin Folsom], “Sacking Out”, in Sand Dune Pony (Wilderness Mysteries; 1), Racine, Wis.: Whitman Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 145

unfamiliarity meaning in Urdu

unfamiliarity in Urdu

unfamiliarity
اجنبیت ajnabiyat

Examples of unfamiliarity in a sentence

  • Again Sandy repeated his pattern of calming down after the first unfamiliarity of a new experience had worn off. […] Before long Sandy accepted the saddle as if he’d been born with one on his back.1954, Troy Nesbit [pseudonym; Franklin Folsom], “Sacking Out”, in Sand Dune Pony (Wilderness Mysteries; 1), Racine, Wis.: Whitman...
  • 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.1989 January, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number...

Forms of unfamiliarity

pluralunfamiliarities

Origin of unfamiliarity

From un- + familiarity.

Questions about unfamiliarity

What does unfamiliarity mean?
Unfamiliarity means lack of familiarity; ignorance or inexperience.
What is unfamiliarity in Urdu?
Unfamiliarity in Urdu is اجنبیت (ajnabiyat). See Unfamiliarity meaning in Urdu.
How do you use unfamiliarity in a sentence?
Again Sandy repeated his pattern of calming down after the first unfamiliarity of a new experience had worn off. […] Before long Sandy accepted the saddle as if he’d been born with one on his back.
What part of speech is unfamiliarity?
Unfamiliarity is a noun.
What is the plural of unfamiliarity?
The plural of unfamiliarity is unfamiliarities.

Words near unfamiliarity in the dictionary

  1. unfamed
  2. unfamilial
  3. unfamiliar
  4. unfamiliarised
  5. unfamiliarities
  6. unfamiliarity
  7. unfamiliarized
  8. unfamiliarly
  9. unfamiliars
  10. unfamilied
  11. unfamished

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unfamiliarity (page history and authors); اجنبیت (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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