UNFAMILIARITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfamiliarity mean? 

• UNFAMILIARITY (noun)
  The noun UNFAMILIARITY has 1 sense:

1. unusualness as a consequence of not being well known

  Familiarity information: UNFAMILIARITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFAMILIARITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unusualness as a consequence of not being well known

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

strangeness; unfamiliarity

Hypernyms ("unfamiliarity" is a kind of...):

unusualness (uncommonness by virtue of being unusual)

Attribute:

foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unfamiliarity"):

crotchet; oddity; queerness; quirk; quirkiness (a strange attitude or habit)

eeriness; ghostliness (strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear)

abnormality; freakishness (marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal)

singularity (strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual)

bizarreness; outlandishness; weirdness (strikingly out of the ordinary)

quaintness (strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned)

eccentricity (strange and unconventional behavior)

Antonym:

familiarity (usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known)

Derivation:

unfamiliar (not known or well known)

 Context examples 

But the first man on Mars would have experienced less unfamiliarity than did he.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Its unfamiliarity puzzled him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)