familiarity
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle French familiarité, from Latin familiāritātem.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
familiarity (plural familiarities)
- The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.8:
- 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.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.8:
- Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
- 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.
- 1927, G K Chesterton: The Return of Don Quixote, p 5:
- An instance of familiar behaviour.
- Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy
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undue intimacy; impertinence
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an instance of familiar behaviour
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close or habitual acquaintance with someone; recognizability
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