Uninitiated vs Unaccustomed - What's the difference?
uninitiated | unaccustomed | Related terms |
Not having been initiated.
Of a person, not having the special knowledge of a particular group.
* {{quote-book
, year=1863
, year_published=
, publisher=Little, Brown, and Co
, editor=Sir William Smith
, author=
, title=A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising its Antiquities, Biography, Geography and Natural History
, volume_plain=Volume III. Red Sea-Zuzims
, section=Versions, Ancient (Targum)
* {{quote-book
, year=1914
, year_published=2001
, publisher=Adegi Graphics
, author=William Halse Rivers Rivers
, title=The History of Melanesian Society
, volume=2, Part 1
, section=Chapter XXXIII. Religion and Magic
* {{quote-magazine
, year=1961
, title=Tape recorders: A quick guide for the uninitiated
, date=January 1962
, volume=16
, issue=1
, page=13
, magazine=Changing Times: The Kiplinger Magazine
, editor=Herbet L. Brown Jr
, publisher=Kiplinger Washington Editors
, issn=1528-9729
* {{quote-book
, year=2008
, publisher=Fordham University Press
, author=David E. Johnson
, title=Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture
, section=Ex-Cited Dialogue
Not prepared by life experience to an event or thing, not accustomed.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword
Uninitiated is a related term of unaccustomed.
As adjectives the difference between uninitiated and unaccustomed
is that uninitiated is not having been initiated while unaccustomed is not prepared by life experience to an event or thing, not accustomed.uninitiated
English
Adjective
(-)- His jargon-filled talk was gibberish to the uninitiated but clear and concise to practitioners.
citation, pages=1653-1654 , passage=Even in the midst of the full swing of fancy, swayed to and fro by the many currants of thought that arise out of a single word, snatches of the verse from which the flight was taken will suddenly appear on the surface like a refrain or a keynote, showing that in reality there is a connexion, though hidden to the uninitiated .}}
citation, isbn=9781402197727 , page=411 , passage=To the uninitiated', the belief not merely in the influence of the dead, but in their actual presence during secret rites is, or has until lately been, very real, and in so far as the ' uninitiated are brought into relation with the societies will possess a religious character.}}
citation, passage=A quick guide for the uninitiated }}
citation, isbn= 9780823228782 , page=107 , passage=Although the priests are the initiated, they remain ignorant and incapable of instructing the uninitiated in the proper method of painting the temples.}}
unaccustomed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.}}
- He is unaccustomed to the cold.