FAMILIARITY

familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty

(noun) an act of undue intimacy

familiarity, intimacy, closeness

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

familiarity

(noun) usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known

casualness, familiarity

(noun) a casual manner

acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy

(noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

familiarity (countable and uncountable, plural familiarities)

The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.

Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.

An instance of familiar behaviour.

Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.

Source: Wiktionary


Fa*mil`iar"i*ty, n.; pl. Familiarities. Etym: [OE. familarite, F. familiaritéfr. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

3 February 2025

CRAZY

(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”


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Coffee Trivia

Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.

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