familiarity en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /fəmɪˈljæɹɪti/ (colloquial)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/ (UK)
Etymology
From Middle French familiarité, from Latin familiāritātem. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþnes. Morphologically familiar + -ity.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
Do not keep familiarity with any but those, with whom you may improve your time.
1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 2: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.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
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(countable, uncountable) Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
Murrel did not in the least object to being called a monkey, yet he always felt a slight distaste when Julian Archer called him one.[…]It had to do with a fine shade between familiarity and intimacy which men like Murrel are never ready to disregard, however ready they may be to black their faces.
1927, G K Chesterton, The Return of Don Quixote, page 5:
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(countable, uncountable) An instance of familiar behaviour.
The gaunt men carried swords and daggers with a new familiarity, and even the women had poniards belted at their waists.
2003, Christopher Paolini, “Dragon Tales”, in Eragon, pages 22-23:
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(countable, uncountable) Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
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.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 269:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| familiarities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
hyperfamiliarity · unfamiliarity · familiarity breeds contempt · nonfamiliarity · overfamiliarity
Translations (34)
az yaxınlıq (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · ro impertinență (undue intimacy; impertinence) · ca confiança (undue intimacy; impertinence) · ru фамильярность (undue intimacy; impertinence) · es familiaridad (an instance of familiar behaviour) · ca familiaritat (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · he היכרות קרובה (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · he קריבות (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · es intimidad (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · ca intimitat (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · enm aqueyntaunce (close or habitual acquaintance with someone; recognizability) · fr familiarité (an instance of familiar behaviour) · bg интимност (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · he גסות (undue intimacy; impertinence) · ro familiaritate (close or habitual acquaintance with someone; recognizability) · fr familiarité (undue intimacy; impertinence) · he מוכרות (close or habitual acquaintance with someone; recognizability) · bg близки отношения (close or habitual acquaintance with someone; recognizability) · ca confiança (close or habitual acquaintance with someone; recognizability) · es impertinencia (undue intimacy; impertinence) · he קרבה (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · bg фамилиарност (undue intimacy; impertinence) · he מוכרות (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · ca confiança (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · ro intimitate (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · he גסות (an instance of familiar behaviour) · de Vertrautheit (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · ro familiaritate (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · pt familiaridade (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · fr familiarité (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · es familiaridad (close or habitual acquaintance with someone; recognizability) · ca familiaritat (an instance of familiar behaviour) · la conversātiō (the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy) · ru ознакомленность (close or habitual acquaintance with someone; recognizability)