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Definition: Unfamiliarity |
UnfamiliarityNoun1. Unusualness as a consequence of not being well known. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unfamiliarity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Synonym: UnfamiliaritySynonym: strangeness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: familiarity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ignorance | Noun: ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse; unfamiliarity, unacquaintance; unconsciousness; Adjective: darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Latin American countries are not popular due to unfamiliarity with the local language. (references) | |
Economic History | Czech Rep | The slow pace of the courts is often compounded by judges' unfamiliarity with commercial cases. (references) |
Eq. Guinea | Foreign investors, generally treated equally, are limited only in their distance from and unfamiliarity with the local environment. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ethiopia | Highly centralized authority, poverty, civil conflict, and unfamiliarity with democratic concepts combine to complicate the implementation of federalism. (references) |
Worker Rights | Thailand | However, implementation of the MOU was erratic, due to insufficient training of law enforcement officials and their unfamiliarity with the law. (references) |
Thailand | Cultural traditions, unfamiliarity with the concept of industrial relations, efforts by the Government to diminish union cohesiveness, and the share of total employment that is agricultural often are cited as reasons for low rates of labor organization. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unfamiliarity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unfamiliarity" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 44 | 51,500 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unfamiliarity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نااشناءی (Unfamiliar), ناشناخته (Unfamiliar, Unknown), عجیب (Eccentric, Extravagant, Marvelous, Rummy, Strange, Stupendous, Tremendous, Unco, Unfamiliar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tuntemattomuus, tottumattomuus (inexperience), outous (oddness, strangeness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungewohntheit (strangeness), unbekanntheit (anonymousness, familiarity), fremdheit (strangeness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άσχετο (irrelativeness, irrelevancy), άγνοια (disregard, ignorance, nescience, unawareness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 不馴 (inexperience), 不案内 (ignorance, inexperience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふなれ (inexperience, inexperienced, lack of experience, unfamiliar), ふあ"ない (ignorance, inexperience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuainjys, joarreeaght (banishment, exile, foreign place, foreignness, peculiarity), anoayllys (ignorance, inexperience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amiliarityunfay незнакомство. (various references) ovana (bad habit, trick), obekantskap, bristande förtrogenhet. (various references) nдbeletlik, nдbeletзilik. (various references) tính xa lạ, tính không quen (unwontedness). (various references) anghynefindra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unfamiliarity" (pronounced u'nfumi'lye"rutē) |
| 11 | -f u m i' l y e" r u t ē | familiarity. |
| 5 | -e" r u t ē | austerity, charity, clarity, dexterity, disparity, hilarity, insularity, irregularity, parity, peculiarity, polarity, popularity, posterity, prosperity, rarity, regularity, severity, similarity, sincerity, solidarity, temerity, unpopularity, Verity, vulgarity. |
| 4 | -r u t ē | alacrity, authority, barbarity, celebrity, dissimilarity, immaturity, impurity, inferiority, insecurity, integrity, majority, maturity, mediocrity, minority, obscurity, particularity, priority, purity, security, seniority, sorority, superiority, supermajority, surety. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, availability, banality, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, centrality, chastity, civility, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, mendacity, mentality, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, partiality, passivity, paternity, paucity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polity, pomposity, portability, possibility, practicality, predictability, principality, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, proximity, publicity, punctuality, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, selectivity, senility, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, sexuality, simplicity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidity, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-i-i-i-l-m-n-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: familiarity. | |
-3 letters: antifamily, unfamiliar, unmilitary. | |
-4 letters: animality, infirmity, luminaria, militaria, unitarily. | |
-5 letters: familiar, filarian, finality, fruitily, infirmly, laminary, limitary, luminary, manurial, miliaria, military, minutial, trainful, unfairly, unifilar. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 66 61 6D 69 6C 69 61 72 69 74 79 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ..-. .- -- .. .-.. .. .- .-. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100110 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100001 01110010 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n f a m i l i a r i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0066 0061 006D 0069 006C 0069 0061 0072 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807267797578756784758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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