What does familiarity mean?

Definitions for familiarity
fəˌmɪl iˈær ɪ ti, -mɪlˈyær-fa·mil·iar·i·ty

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word familiarity.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancynoun

    personal knowledge or information about someone or something

  2. familiaritynoun

    usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known

  3. familiarity, intimacy, closenessnoun

    close or warm friendship

    "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"

  4. casualness, familiaritynoun

    a casual manner

  5. familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, libertynoun

    an act of undue intimacy

Wiktionary

  1. familiaritynoun

    The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.

  2. familiaritynoun

    Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.

  3. familiaritynoun

    An instance of familiar behaviour.

  4. familiaritynoun

    Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.

  5. Etymology: From familiarité, from familiaritatem.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Familiaritynoun

    Etymology: familiarité, French, from familiar.

    We contract at last such an intimacy and familiarity with them, as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

    They say any mortals may enjoy the most intimate familiarities with these gentle spirits. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. familiarity

    Familiarity is the state of having knowledge or awareness about something due to previous experiences, thereby recognizing it or understanding it easily. It is the state of being well-acquainted with or knowledgeable about something or someone.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Familiaritynoun

    the state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity

  2. Familiaritynoun

    anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of familiarity in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of familiarity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of familiarity in a Sentence

  1. Miguel de Cervantes:

    I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

  2. Wyndham Lewis:

    With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

  3. Lana Wachowski:

    The summer is built around familiarity, many cultural critics who shape awareness for films are obsessed with sequels and derivative material. They wildly crave it. That kind of environment is hostile to originality. It only makes space for derivative material and rejects originality. I think Warner Bros. was uncomfortable with that environment.

  4. Tom Hanks:

    They have had the man in their life represented in so many different ways from, you know, with the familiarity of a Hershey's bar or Coca-Cola bottle to ways that I think really didn't do the man service or his artistry.

  5. Antoine de Rivarol:

    Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

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Translations for familiarity

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  • близки отношения, фамилиарност, интимностBulgarian
  • VertrautheitGerman
  • familiaridad, impertinencia, intimidadSpanish
  • intimitate, familiaritateRomanian
  • ознакомленность, фамильярностьRussian
  • fortrogenhetSwedish

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