noun

unfamiliarity

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Unfamiliarity (noun) means a lack of knowledge or experience of something.

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A lack of knowledge or experience of something.

"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." — Werner Winter, On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian (1989)

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