Difference between Unknown and Unfamiliar

What is the difference between Unknown and Unfamiliar?

Unknown as an adjective is not known; unidentified; not well known. while Unfamiliar as an adjective is strange, not familiar.

Unknown

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not known; unidentified; not well known.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found. Any fact or place about which nothing is known (as in the phrase "into the unknown").

Unfamiliar

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An unfamiliar person; a stranger.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Strange, not familiar.

Example sentence: The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

We hope you now know whether to use Unknown or Unfamiliar in your sentence.

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