Familiarity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Familiarity is a noun meaning The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
Meaning
The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
More Meanings
- Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
- An instance of familiar behaviour.
- Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
Example Sentences
Do not keep familiarity with any but those, with whom you may improve your time.
The gaunt men carried swords and daggers with a new familiarity, and even the women had poniards belted at their waists.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- familiarities
Synonyms for familiarity
Depending on context, synonyms include intimacy, acquaintance, liberty, impropriety, closeness, indecorum.
Antonyms for familiarity
Common opposites include unfamiliarity, strangeness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include acquaintance, conversance, conversancy, closeness, intimacy, casualness.
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