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, familiarity, 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, familiarity, tightfistedness, secretiveness, minginess, stuffiness, tightness, intimacy, indecorum, niggardness, parsimony

   Antonyms:
   unfamiliarity, strangeness

4. casualness, familiaritynoun

   a casual manner

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, casualness, conversancy, closeness, liberty, familiarity, 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, familiarity, 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. 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.

2. Honore' de Balzac:

   Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity.

3. Chris Salgardo:

   California was my home for so many years, when I go, there's a feeling of comfort and familiarity.

4. Wyndham Lewis:

   With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

5. Michael Nardone:

   You can't see through a concrete wall so I could have a great fire and I'll never know it's there. But if I have a single-family residence with aluminum or wood siding, I'll probably see it. Same thing with roofs, the drone pilot needs to be more than just a pilot ; he needs to have a familiarity with what heat signatures will penetrate building material.