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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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noun the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy
| Español | intimidad |
|---|---|
| Português | familiaridade |
| Français | familiarité |
| Deutsch | Vertrautheit |
| Română | familiaritate, intimitate |
| עברית | קרבה kirvá, היכרות קרובה hekerút krová, מוכרות mukarút, קריבות krivút |
noun undue intimacy; impertinence
| Español | impertinencia |
|---|---|
| Français | familiarité |
| Română | impertinență |
| Русский | фамильярность familʹjarnostʹ |
| עברית | גסות gasút |
noun an instance of familiar behaviour
| Español | familiaridad |
|---|---|
| Français | familiarité |
| עברית | גסות gasút |
noun close or habitual acquaintance with someone; recognizability
| Español | familiaridad |
|---|---|
| Română | familiaritate |
| Русский | ознакомленность oznakomlennostʹ |
| עברית | מוכרות mukarút |
Talk about this word "familiarity." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/familiarity. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. familiarity. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/familiarity "familiarity." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/familiarity.Cite this
@misc{familiarity_2026,
title = {familiarity},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/familiarity},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}