What does familiarity mean?
Definitions for familiarity
fəˌmɪl iˈær ɪ ti, -mɪlˈyær-fa·mil·iar·i·ty
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Princeton's WordNet
acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancynoun
personal knowledge or information about someone or something
familiaritynoun
usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known
familiarity, intimacy, closenessnoun
close or warm friendship
"the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
casualness, familiaritynoun
a casual manner
familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, libertynoun
an act of undue intimacy
Wiktionary
familiaritynoun
The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
familiaritynoun
Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
familiaritynoun
An instance of familiar behaviour.
familiaritynoun
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
Etymology: From familiarité, from familiaritatem.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.
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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
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
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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of familiarity in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of familiarity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of familiarity in a Sentence
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
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.
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.
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.
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
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