Familiarity

//fəmɪˈljæɹɪti// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    an act of undue intimacy wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    close or warm friendship wordnet
  5. 5
    An instance of familiar behaviour. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known wordnet
  2. 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."

  3. 8
    a casual manner wordnet
  4. 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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