familiarity
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /fəmɪlɪˈæɹɪti/
familiarity
- The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- It is also folly and injustice to deprive children […] of their fathers familiaritie, and ever to shew them a surly, austere, grim, and disdainefull countenance, hoping thereby to keepe them in awfull feare and duteous obedience.
- 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 2,
- Do not keep familiarity with any but those, with whom you may improve your time.
- Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
- An instance of familiar behaviour.
- Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
- French: familiarité
- German: Vertrautheit
- Portuguese: familiaridade
- Spanish: intimidad
- French: familiarité
- Russian: фамильярность
- Spanish: impertinencia
- French: familiarité
- Spanish: familiaridad
- Russian: ознакомленность
- Spanish: familiaridad
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