Familiarity : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Familiarity	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Familiarity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
familiarity n personal knowledge or information about someone or something Synonym(s): acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known Antonym(s): strangeness, unfamiliarity close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" Synonym(s): familiarity, intimacy, closeness a casual manner Synonym(s): casualness, familiarity an act of undue intimacy Synonym(s): familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Familiarity \Famil`iar"ity\, n.; pl. {Familiarities}. [OE. familarite, F. familiarit[82]fr. L. faniliaritas. See {Familiar}.] 1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties. Syn: Acquaintance; fellowship; affability; intimacy. See {Acquaintance}.