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
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
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
