Familiarity
[fəmɪlɪ'ærɪtɪ] or [fə,mɪlɪ'ærəti]
Definition
(noun.) an act of undue intimacy.
(noun.) close or warm friendship; 'the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy'.
(noun.) usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known.
Editor: Lora--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
Typed by Ethan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Acquaintance, familiar knowledge.[2]. Intimacy, fellowship, friendship, friendliness, intercourse, good understanding.
Checker: Mattie
Examples
- A fine horse, my friend, said the Count, addressing the groom with the most engaging familiarity of manner, You are going to drive out? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Grinstone showed his teeth and laughed in her face with a familiarity that was not pleasant. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It seems somewhat too broad for its height, but may be familiarity with it might dissipate this impression. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My familiarity with Marian's journal sufficiently assured me that the elderly lady was Madame Fosco. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Worse, if possible, than ceremony was the other extreme of slipshod familiarity. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- With a little familiarity such superficial objections will be forgotten. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- She will not even permit of undue familiarity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In some surprise at the familiarity of this question, or at least of the manner in which it was spoken, Elinor replied that she was. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The nature of my relations with her, which placed me on terms of familiarity without placing me on terms of favor, conduced to my distraction. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- No; for such a tone--call it familiarity, levity, equality, or what you will--would imply those social interchanges which do not exist. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Betteredge dropped to the lowest depth of familiarity with me, without a struggle to save himself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Having to do with things in an intelligent way issues in acquaintance or familiarity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This kind of subject matter, or known material, is expressed in familiarity or acquaintance with things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was the first time she had ever addressed me with that familiarity! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The evenings which followed the sketching excursions of the afternoon varied, rather than checked, these innocent, these inevitable familiarities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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