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Familiarity

noun

(pl. familiarities)

Personal knowledge or information about someone or something. Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, conversancy.

Usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known.

Close or warm friendship. Synonyms: closeness, intimacy.

A casual manner. Synonym: casualness.

An act of undue intimacy. Synonyms: impropriety, indecorum, liberty.

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"Familiarity" Quotes from Famous Books

... above which,' said Flora, 'I earnestly beg you as the dearest thing that ever was if you'll still excuse the familiarity from one who moves in very different circles to let Arthur understand that I don't know after all whether it wasn't all nonsense between us though pleasant at the time and trying too and certainly ...

— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens

... wild, such a night as we might not have again for weeks. Any one could move in it as securely as behind a curtain, for I could not see a yard before my face, and not a track could lie five minutes. But suddenly the familiarity of the place hit me, till I could have laughed out, if I had been there on any other business. Collins's long passage had wormed behind Thompson's stope, behind the La Chance stables; and it was no wonder he had found it easy enough to get supplies from ...

— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones

... everywhere saluted with heads uncovered, and welcomed by hearty greetings. The people of New France had lost none of the natural politeness and ease of their ancestors, and, as every gentleman of the Governor's suite was at once recognized, a conversation, friendly even to familiarity, ensued between them and the citizens and habitans, who worked as if they were building their very souls into the walls ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... fellow," he said with impertinent familiarity, "at four o'clock this morning I was dancing like mad with some of the ...

— A Queen's Error • Henry Curties

... Our familiarity with a character and our grounds for calling it an old acquaintance may result from two causes, which in judging a new [130] variety are essentially different. The character in question may be present in the given species or it may be lacking, but present in the other group. In the first case a ...

— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries

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