familiarity (redirected from familiarities)

fa·mil·iar·i·ty  (f-mlyr-t, -ml-r-)

n. pl. fa·mil·iar·i·ties

1. Considerable acquaintance with.

2. Established friendship; intimacy.

3.

a. An excessively familiar or informal act; an impropriety.

b. A sexual advance.

4. The quality or condition of being familiar.

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familiarity [fəˌmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ]

n pl -ties

1. reasonable knowledge or acquaintance, as with a subject or place

2. close acquaintanceship or intimacy

3. undue intimacy

4. (sometimes plural) an instance of unwarranted intimacy

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	familiarity - personal knowledge or information about someone or something acquaintance, conversance, conversancy information - knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
	2.	familiarity - usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known usualness - commonness by virtue of not being unusual strangeness, unfamiliarity - unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
	3.	familiarity - close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" intimacy, closeness friendliness - a friendly disposition
	4.	familiarity - a casual manner                       casualness informality - a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously slanginess - casualness in use of language
	5.	familiarity - an act of undue intimacy             indecorum, impropriety, liberty misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed - improper or wicked or immoral behavior

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familiarity

noun

1. acquaintance, experience, understanding, knowledge, awareness, grasp, acquaintanceship The enemy would always have the advantage of familiarity with the rugged terrain.
acquaintance ignorance, inexperience, unfamiliarity

2. friendliness, friendship, intimacy, closeness, freedom, ease, openness, fellowship, informality, sociability, naturalness, absence of reserve, unceremoniousness Close personal familiarity between councillors and staff can prove embarrassing.
friendliness reserve, distance, formality

3. disrespect, forwardness, overfamiliarity, liberties, liberty, cheek, presumption, boldness He had behaved with undue and oily familiarity.
disrespect respect, constraint, propriety, decorum

Proverbs
"Familiarity breeds contempt"

Translations

familiarity [fəˌmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ] N

1. [of sight, event etc] → familiaridad f

2. (= knowledge, acquaintance) → conocimiento m (with de) familiarity breeds contempt → donde hay confianza hay asco

3. (= intimacy) [of tone etc] → familiaridad f, confianza f (pej) → frescura f, exceso m de familiaridad

4. familiarities → familiaridades fpl, confianzas fpl

familiarity [fəˌmɪliˈærɪti] n

[voice, sight, place, surroundings] → caractère m familier; [person] → familiarité f
familiarity breeds contempt → la familiarité engendre le mépris

(= acquaintance) familiarity with sth → connaissance f de qch

(= informality) [language, tone] → familiarité f

familiarity

n

no pl → Vertrautheit f

(between people) → vertrautes Verhältnis; (between colleagues etc) → ungezwungenes or familiäres Verhältnis; (of tone etc) → Familiarität f; (of greeting) → Freundschaftlichkeit f; (of gesture) → Vertraulichkeit f, → Familiarität f; (pej: = overfriendliness) → plumpe Vertraulichkeit, Familiarität f; the familiarity with which she greeted the head waiter → der vertraute Ton, in dem sie den Oberkellner begrüßte; familiarity breeds contempt (Prov) → allzu große Vertrautheit erzeugt Verachtung

usu pl (= overfriendly action) → (plumpe) Vertraulichkeit

familiarity [fəˌmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ] n (knowledge) familiarity (with) → conoscenza (di), dimestichezza (con); (of tone) → confidenza, familiarità, intimità
familiarity breeds contempt → dar troppa confidenza fa perdere il rispetto

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familiarity [fəˌmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ] n (knowledge) familiarity (with) → conoscenza (di), dimestichezza (con); (of tone) → confidenza, familiarità, intimità
familiarity breeds contempt → dar troppa confidenza fa perdere il rispetto