unfamiliarity as a noun: - 1
unfamiliarity
noun
1 unfamiliarity
Unusualness as a consequence of not being well known.
synonym: strangeness.
Roget 491:
ignorance,
nescience,
tabula rasa [Lat.],
crass ignorance,
ignorance crasse [Fr.];
unfamiliarity,
unacquaintance†;
unconsciousness
etc.
adj.;
darkness,
blindness;
incomprehension,
inexperience,
simplicity.
unknown quantities,
x,
y,
z.
sealed book,
terra incognita,
virgin soil,
unexplored ground;
dark ages.
[Imperfect knowledge]
smattering,
sciolism†,
glimmering,
dilettantism;
bewilderment
etc.
(uncertainty)
475;
incapacity.
[Affectation of knowledge]
pedantry;
charlatanry,
charlatism†;
Philister†,
Philistine.
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Dutch: curiositeit, vreemdheid
Moby thesaurus: agnosticism, amateurishness, amateurism, blankmindedness, brand-newness, callowness, dewiness, disaccustomedness, empty-headedness, freshness, gloss of novelty, greenhornism, greenness, hiatus of learning, ignorance, ignorantism, ignorantness, immaturity, inanity, inexperience, innocence, intactness, know-nothingism, knowledge-gap, lack of information, lateness, maidenhood, mint condition, nescience, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, newness to, novelness, novelty, nowness, obscurantism, originality, presentness, pristineness, rawness, recency, recentness, simpleness, simplicity, strangeness, tabula rasa, unaccustomedness, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, unawareness, uncommonness, unconversance, unexperiencedness, unfledgedness, unhabituatedness, unintelligence, unknowing, unknowingness, unpracticedness, unprofessionalism, unprofessionalness, unripeness, unusualness, unwontedness, vacuity, vacuousness, virginity ... show more.
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