Meaning of FAMILIARITY
| Pronunciation: | | fu`milee'aritee
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- [n] an act of undue intimacy
- [n] close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
- [n] usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known
- [n] a casual manner
- [n] personal knowledge or information about someone or something
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| | Synonyms: | | acquaintance, casualness, closeness, conversance, conversancy, impropriety, indecorum, intimacy, liberty |
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| | Antonyms: | | strangeness, unfamiliarity | | |
| | See Also: | | friendliness, informality, information, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, slanginess, usualness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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}.
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| | Related Terms: | | acquaintance, affability, affinity, amiability, assumption, awareness, Bohemianism, 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 |
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