Unacquaintance

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or condition of being unacquainted; unfamiliarity with something. uncountable

    "The first organs which Gall excogitated, he placed in the region of the sinus; and it is manifest he was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity."

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agnosticismgreennessignoranceimmaturityinanityinexperience

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"The first organs which Gall excogitated, he placed in the region of the sinus; and it is manifest he was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity."

Etymology

From un- + acquaintance.

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