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English noun: familiarity

1. familiarity (cognition) personal knowledge or information about someone or something


Synonymsacquaintance, conversance, conversancy


Broader (hypernym)information

2. familiarity (attribute) usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known


Broader (hypernym)usualness


Attributefamiliar, unfamiliar


Antonymsstrangeness, unfamiliarity

3. familiarity (attribute) close or warm friendship


SamplesThe absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy.


Synonymscloseness, intimacy


Broader (hypernym)friendliness

4. familiarity (attribute) a casual manner


Synonymscasualness


Broader (hypernym)informality


Narrower (hyponym)slanginess

5. familiarity (act) an act of undue intimacy


Synonymsimpropriety, indecorum, liberty


Broader (hypernym)misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed









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