An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
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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RAREFACTION
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