Familiarity

Definitions

1. The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
   countable, uncountable
2. Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
   countable, uncountable
3. An instance of familiar behaviour.
   countable, uncountable
4. Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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⟳.”

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