Familiarity - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |fəˌmɪlɪˈærətɪ|  American pronunciation of the word familiarity
Brit.  |fəmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ|  British pronunciation of the word familiarity

noun

- personal knowledge or information about someone or something (syn: acquaintance, conversance)
- usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known
- close or warm friendship (syn: closeness, intimacy)
- a casual manner
- an act of undue intimacy (syn: impropriety, indecorum, liberty)

Extra examples

He spoke to everyone with the easy familiarity of an old friend.

...the elderly couple enjoys a familiarity that is the result of many years of happy marriage...

In fact his familiarity with the Bronx was pretty limited.

I miss the familiarity of home.

He treated her with the easy familiarity of an equal.

...she clearly lacked even a basal familiarity with the topic...

He winked towards Nicholas with a degree of familiarity.

Word forms

noun
singular: familiarity
plural: familiarities
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