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familiarity

/fəmɪˈljæɹɪti/noun5 syllables

Familiarity means: personal knowledge or information about someone or something.

Synonyms for familiarity9

noun, as in personal knowledge or information about someone or something

acquaintance, conversance, conversancy

noun, as in an act of undue intimacy

impropriety, indecorum, liberty

noun, as in close or warm friendship

intimacy, closeness

noun, as in a casual manner

casualness

Opposites of familiarity

unfamiliarity

What does familiarity mean?5

noun

1

personal knowledge or information about someone or something

2

an act of undue intimacy

3

close or warm friendship“the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy”

4

a casual manner

5

usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with familiarity?14

three syllables

four syllables

prosperitydisparitysinceritydexteritypolarityposterity

five syllables

popularitysolidaritysimilaritysingularityregularity
Show 40 near rhymes

Familiarity in a sentence

  • Our company's visual identity was designed to evoke a sense of trust and familiarity.bekindtoall
  • Intelligence is our ability to begin understanding (or adapting to) new information, regardless of past familiarity.Sumyjkl
  • Gustavo found comfort in the familiarity of the woods, where everything seemed to be in harmony.Amastan
  • Love's intensity can wane as familiarity grows.Nuel
  • My familiarity with Esperanto allowed me to more deeply understand the structure and function of language.Dalyup
  • Clubs I entered in high school were super good for gaining familiarity with my juniors and seniors.tsp_2

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of familiarity

as a noun

plural
familiarities