familiarity
thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
the state of being familiar; friendly relationship; close acquaintance; intimacy.
an absence of ceremony and formality; informality.
freedom of behavior justified only by the closest relationship; undue intimacy.
Often familiarities. an instance of such freedom, as in action or speech.
a sexual liberty or impropriety.
Origin of familiarity
1Other words for familiarity
Other words from familiarity
- o·ver·fa·mil·i·ar·i·ty, noun
- pre·fa·mil·i·ar·i·ty, noun
Words Nearby familiarity
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How to use familiarity in a sentence
And there is definitely something to finding solace in food, familiarity, and memory.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone | Samantha Levine | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTTalking about death is never easy, but with food, comfort, and familiarity, a new kind of dinner party is making it easier.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone | Samantha Levine | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTLiving in a society openly governed by force with those who have demonstrated their familiarity with it increases the danger.
familiarity with search-engines helps, a strange quirk of working in this retro medium.
The difference is one of familiarity and choice not law or logic.
Supreme Court Justices Looked to Personal Views Rather Than Legal Arguments for Hobby Lobby Decision | Eric Segall | July 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
It was such a magnificent sum that Sol did not feel like taking the familiarity with it of mentioning it aloud.
The Bondboy | George W. (George Washington) OgdenEducation is the cultivation of a just and legitimate familiarity betwixt the mind and things.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)Education is a just and legitimate familiarity betwixt the mind and things.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)His imagination, wakened by Egypt, plunged backwards with a sense of strange familiarity.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodEven slight familiarity with the microscopic structure of vegetable tissue will prevent the chagrin of such errors.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd
British Dictionary definitions for familiarity
/ (fəˌmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ) /
reasonable knowledge or acquaintance, as with a subject or place
close acquaintanceship or intimacy
undue intimacy
(sometimes plural) an instance of unwarranted intimacy
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