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Familiarity definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FAMILIAR'ITY, n.
1. Intimate and frequent converse, or association in company. The gentlemen lived in remarkable familiarity. Hence,
2. Easiness of conversation; affability; freedom from ceremony.
3. Intimacy; intimate acquaintance; unconstrained intercourse.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: personal knowledge or information about someone or something [syn: acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy]
2: usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known [ant: strangeness, unfamiliarity]
3: close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: familiarity, intimacy, closeness]
4: a casual manner [syn: casualness, familiarity]
5: an act of undue intimacy [syn: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 13th century 1. a. the quality or state of being familiar b. a state of close relationship ; intimacy 2. a. absence of ceremony ; informality b. an unduly informal act or expression ; impropriety c. a sexual liberty 3. close acquaintance with something <my familiarity with American history>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 the state of being well known (the familiarity of the scene). 2 (foll. by with) close acquaintance. 3 a close relationship. 4 a sexual intimacy. b (in pl.) acts of physical intimacy. 5 familiar or informal behaviour, esp. excessively so. Etymology: ME f. OF familiarité f. L familiaritas -tatis (as FAMILIAR)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Familiarity Fa*mil`iar"i*ty, n.; pl. Familiarities. [OE. familarite, F. familiarit['e]fr. L. faniliaritas. See Familiar.] 1. 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. 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. Syn: Acquaintance; fellowship; affability; intimacy. See Acquaintance.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Familiarity is used especially in the expression familiarity breeds contempt to say that if you know a person or situation very well, you can easily lose respect for that person or become careless in that situation. PHRASE: V inflects see also familiar

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Acquaintance, familiar knowledge, etc. 2. Intimacy, fellowship, friendship, etc. 3. Friendliness, sociability, etc. 4. Informality, freedom, etc. 5. Over-freedom, disrespect, etc. 6. General recognition, etc. See familiar.

Moby Thesaurus

Bohemianism, acquaintance, affability, affinity, amiability, assumption, awareness, boldness, casualness, chumminess, civility, closeness, clubbability, clubbishness, clubbism, cognition, cognizance, common touch, communicativeness, companionability, compatibility, comprehension, congeniality, cordiality, corpus, courtesy, data, datum, ease, easiness, easygoingness, experience, expertise, facts, factual base, fellowship, folksiness, fondness for society, friendliness, geniality, graciousness, grasp, gregariousness, homeliness, homeyness, hospitality, hubris, impertinence, imposition, impropriety, impudence, informality, informalness, information, inseparableness, insolence, intelligence, intimacy, intimate acquaintance, inwardness, irregularity, ken, know-how, knowing, knowledge, lawlessness, liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, looseness, mateyness, naturalness, nearness, offhandedness, openness, palliness, plainness, practical knowledge, presumption, presumptuousness, private knowledge, privity, ratio cognoscendi, relaxedness, self-knowledge, simplicity, sociability, sociableness, social grace, sociality, special affinity, technic, technics, technique, unaffectedness, unceremoniousness, unconstrainedness, unconstraint, unconventionality, understanding, undue liberty, unpretentiousness, urbanity