English noun: familiarity | |||
1. | familiarity (cognition) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | ||
Synonyms | acquaintance, conversance, conversancy | ||
Broader (hypernym) | information | ||
2. | familiarity (attribute) usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known | ||
Broader (hypernym) | usualness | ||
Attribute | familiar, unfamiliar | ||
Antonyms | strangeness, unfamiliarity | ||
3. | familiarity (attribute) close or warm friendship | ||
Samples | The absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy. | ||
Synonyms | closeness, intimacy | ||
Broader (hypernym) | friendliness | ||
4. | familiarity (attribute) a casual manner | ||
Synonyms | casualness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | informality | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | slanginess | ||
5. | familiarity (act) an act of undue intimacy | ||
Synonyms | impropriety, indecorum, liberty | ||
Broader (hypernym) | misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed | ||