Inacquaintance

Quick meaning: Inacquaintance is a noun meaning Lack of acquaintance; ignorance.

Meaning

Lack of acquaintance; ignorance.

Example Sentences

He could scarcely have advanced a theory indicating a more unfortunate inacquaintance with the subject.

It is a form of which George Eliot seems especially fond: her young ladies refuse the most ineligible offers out of devotion to their aunts; her young gentlemen have all the arduous inacquaintance with Latin which their education requires […]

[…] so in asthma, where there is no expuition, or the expuition does not appear till the paroxysm is subsiding, we ought, I think, in fair reason, rather to acknowledge or inacquaintance with the actual cause than to place our faith in one that has so little to support it.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonacquaintance, unacquaintance, unfamiliarity, disacquaintance, semiacquaintance, unknowing.

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