Familiarity

Noun

 * 1) The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
 * 2) Undue intimacy.
 * 3) Sexual intimacy.
 * 4) Informality; impertinence.
 * 5) * 1927, G K Chesterton: The Return of Don Quixote, p 5:
 * 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.
 * 1) An instance of familiar behaviour.
 * 2) Close or habitual acquaintance with someone; recognizability.

Derived terms

 * familiarity breeds contempt

Adjectives for Familiarity
growing; sentimental; impertinent; legitimate; insolent; becoming; affectionate; misdirected; easy; sheer; hourly; dear; curious; intimate; democratic; personal; sweet; profane.

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

Etymology
From Latin familiaritas

Translations

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