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familiarity

[ fuh-mil-ee-ar-i-tee, -mil-yar- ]

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noun

, plural fa·mil·i·ar·i·ties.

thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
the state of being familiar; friendly relationship; close acquaintance; intimacy.
an absence of ceremony and formality; informality.
Synonyms: unconstraint
freedom of behavior justified only by the closest relationship; undue intimacy.
Synonyms: license, freedom, liberty
Often familiarities. an instance of such freedom, as in action or speech.
a sexual liberty or impropriety.

familiarity

/ fəˌmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ /

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1350–1400; Middle English familiarite (< Anglo-French ) < Latin familiāritās intimacy. See familiar, -ity

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And there is definitely something to finding solace in food, familiarity, and memory.

Talking about death is never easy, but with food, comfort, and familiarity, a new kind of dinner party is making it easier.

Living in a society openly governed by force with those who have demonstrated their familiarity with it increases the danger.

Familiarity with search-engines helps, a strange quirk of working in this retro medium.

The difference is one of familiarity and choice not law or logic.

It was such a magnificent sum that Sol did not feel like taking the familiarity with it of mentioning it aloud.

Education is the cultivation of a just and legitimate familiarity betwixt the mind and things.

Education is a just and legitimate familiarity betwixt the mind and things.

His imagination, wakened by Egypt, plunged backwards with a sense of strange familiarity.

Even slight familiarity with the microscopic structure of vegetable tissue will prevent the chagrin of such errors.

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