familiarity

CEFRC1

/fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Knowledge of something gained through experience or repeated contact.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An instance of familiar behaviour.

Examples

  • Our company's visual identity was designed to evoke a sense of trust and familiarity.

  • Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /fəmɪˈljæɹɪti/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.

  2. The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.

  3. Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.

More examples

In context

  • I wouldn't permit such familiarity.

  • Do not keep familiarity with any but those, with whom you may improve your time.

  • 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.

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Origin

noun

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