Synonyms for familiarity
fəˌmɪl iˈær ɪ ti, -mɪlˈyær-fa·mil·iar·i·ty

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1. familiarity

   Acquaintance between persons supposes that each knows the other; we may know a public man by his writings or speeches, and by sight, but can not claim acquaintance unless he personally knows us. There may be pleasant acquaintance with little companionship; and conversely, much companionship with little acquaintance, as between busy clerks at adjoining desks. So there may be association in business without intimacy or friendship. Acquaintance admits of many degrees, from a slight or passing to a familiar or intimate acquaintance; but acquaintance unmodified commonly signifies less than familiarity or intimacy. As regards persons, familiarity is becoming restricted to the undesirable sense, as in the proverb, "Familiarity breeds contempt;" hence, in personal relations, the word intimacy, which refers to mutual knowledge of thought and feeling, is now uniformly preferred. Friendship includes acquaintance with some degree of intimacy, and ordinarily companionship, though in a wider sense friendship may exist between those who have never met, but know each other only by word and deed. Acquaintance does not involve friendship, for one may be well acquainted with an enemy. Fellowship involves not merely acquaintance and companionship, but sympathy as well. There may be much friendship without much fellowship, as between those whose homes or pursuits are far apart. There may be pleasant fellowship which does not reach the fulness of friendship. Compare ATTACHMENT; FRIENDSHIP; LOVE. As regards studies, pursuits, etc., acquaintance is less than familiarity, which supposes minute knowledge of particulars, arising often from long experience or association.

   Synonyms:
   acquaintance, association, companionship, experience, fellowship, friendship, intimacy, knowledge

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, ignoring, inexperience, unfamiliarity

   Preposition:
   Acquaintance with a subject; of one person with another; between persons.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancynoun

   personal knowledge or information about someone or something

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, liberty, casualness, conversancy, closeness, friend, indecorum, impropriety, acquaintance, conversance, acquaintanceship

   Antonyms:
   strangeness, unfamiliarity

2. familiaritynoun

   usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, casualness, conversancy, closeness, liberty, indecorum, impropriety, acquaintance, conversance

   Antonyms:
   unfamiliarity, strangeness

3. familiarity, intimacy, closenessnoun

   close or warm friendship

   "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"

   Synonyms:
   conversance, affaire, conversancy, parsimoniousness, amour, impropriety, casualness, meanness, liberty, niggardliness, liaison, closeness, nearness, affair, involvement, acquaintance, tightfistedness, secretiveness, minginess, stuffiness, tightness, intimacy, indecorum, niggardness, parsimony

   Antonyms:
   unfamiliarity, strangeness

4. casualness, familiaritynoun

   a casual manner

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, casualness, conversancy, closeness, liberty, indecorum, impropriety, acquaintance, conversance

   Antonyms:
   strangeness, unfamiliarity

5. familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, libertynoun

   an act of undue intimacy

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, indecency, autonomy, casualness, conversancy, closeness, indecorousness, liberty, indecorum, impropriety, acquaintance, shore leave, conversance, improperness

   Antonyms:
   unfamiliarity, strangeness

Matched Categories

1. • Informality
   • Information
   • Misbehavior
   • Usualness

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. familiaritynoun

   Synonyms:
   acquaintance, familiar knowledge

2. familiaritynoun

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, fellowship, friendship, friendliness, intercourse, good understanding

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. familiaritynoun

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, conversance, acquaintance, informality, freedom, unconstraint, disrespect, unreserve

   Antonyms:
   unfamiliarity, strangeness

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1. List of paraphrases for "familiarity":

   familiarization, knowledge, familiarisation

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1. Stephen Innes:

   Much the same could be true right now about the escalation of tariffs (and) with time, investors have managed to sidestep them and returned to the familiarity of focusing on the data, which in the case of the U.S. economy, still looks good.

2. Thad Kousser:

   Part of Read MoreOr is that Americans fundamentally don't trust rich people, another part of that is : They don't have that reservoir of familiarity and good feeling that some politicians enter any race with.

3. Bontle Modiselle:

   The visual representation of Amapiano is such that it breeds from a ground of familiarity, you'll see a lot of Kwaito-esque movements that are reimagined in the look of Amapiano today.

4. Corey Wallace:

   Japan does not have pilots with any experience landing fixed-wing aircraft on carriers. However, this new facility might offer the opportunity over time for Japanese to gain some familiarity with such operations alongside United States -- not only to utilize their own carriers, but for cross decking( sharing) with the United States, having Japanese F-35s on American naval vessels would be quite a signal.

5. Todd Kaplan:

   This has been a iterative process over the last handful of years, we think it’s a really great way to maintain [Pepsi’s] familiarity … but also project out to the future.