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Familiarity
Definitions
- 1 The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy. countable, uncountable
"It is also folly and injustice to deprive children[…]of their fathers familiaritie, and ever to shew them a surly, austere, grim, and disdainefull countenance, hoping thereby to keepe them in awfull feare and duteous obedience."
- 2 an act of undue intimacy wordnet
- 3 Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence. countable, uncountable
"Murrel did not in the least object to being called a monkey, yet he always felt a slight distaste when Julian Archer called him one.[…]It had to do with a fine shade between familiarity and intimacy which men like Murrel are never ready to disregard, however ready they may be to black their faces."
- 4 close or warm friendship wordnet
- 5 An instance of familiar behaviour. countable, uncountable
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- 6 usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known wordnet
- 7 Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience. countable, uncountable
"The objects around have been seen so often, that they have at last become, as it were, unseen; their familiarity does not carry us out of ourselves, for all their associations are our own."
- 8 a casual manner wordnet
- 9 personal knowledge or information about someone or something wordnet
Etymology
From Middle French familiarité, from Latin familiāritātem. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþnes. Morphologically familiar + -ity.
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