A Topical Dictionary: Search for familiarity

Dictionary Results For "familiarity" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

From Latin familiaritas

Noun

The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
undue|Undue intimacy.
sexual|Sexual intimacy.
informality|Informality; impertinence.
An instance of familiar behaviour.
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone; recognizability.

References

fr:familiarity io:familiarity hu:familiarity ja:familiarity te:familiarity vi:familiarity zh:familiarity

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

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

Moby Dictionary
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