familiarity
Meanings
Plural: familiarities
Noun
- personal knowledge or information about someone or something
- usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known
- close or warm friendship
- a casual manner
- an act of undue intimacy
- The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
- Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
- An instance of familiar behaviour.
- Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French familiarité, from Latin familiāritātem. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþnes.
Morphologically familiar + -ity
Synonyms
acquaintance, casualness, closeness, conversance, conversancy, impropriety, indecorum, intimacy, liberty
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 19
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