familiarity

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familiarity

  • /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/ UK
  • /fəmɪˈljæɹɪti/ colloquial

Rhymes with -æɹɪti

Where it comes from

From Middle French familiarité, from Latin familiāritātem. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþnes. Morphologically familiar + -ity.

noun familiarities

  1. countable, uncountable The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: acquaintance, conversance, conversancy, closeness, intimacy, casualness, liberty, indecorum, impropriety, familiarisation, familiarization, proficiency, habit, informed, knowing, know

Translations

Every language

noun the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy

Españolintimidad
Portuguêsfamiliaridade
Françaisfamiliarité
DeutschVertrautheit
Românăfamiliaritate, intimitate
עבריתקרבה kirvá, היכרות קרובה hekerút krová, מוכרות mukarút, קריבות krivút

noun undue intimacy; impertinence

Españolimpertinencia
Françaisfamiliarité
Românăimpertinență
Русскийфамильярность familʹjarnostʹ
עבריתגסות gasút

noun an instance of familiar behaviour

Españolfamiliaridad
Françaisfamiliarité
עבריתגסות gasút

noun close or habitual acquaintance with someone; recognizability

Españolfamiliaridad
Românăfamiliaritate
Русскийознакомленность oznakomlennostʹ
עבריתמוכרות mukarút

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@misc{familiarity_2026,
  title = {familiarity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/familiarity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}