Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Acquaintance with or knowledge of something.
- noun The quality of being known from past experience.
- noun Established friendship or intimacy.
- noun Improper or unduly intimate friendliness; forwardness.
- noun An act characterized by forwardness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being familiar, in any sense of that word; intimate knowledge; close or habitual acquaintance; free or unrestrained intercourse: followed by with before an object.
- noun An unusual liberty in act or speech from one person toward another; a freedom of conduct justified only by the most intimate relations, or exercised without warrant; an act of personal license, in either a good or a bad sense: most frequently in the plural: as, the familiarities of intimate friendship; his familiarities were repulsive.
- noun In astrol., any kind of aspect or reception.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being extremely friendly;
intimacy . - noun
Undue intimacy; inappropriateinformality ,impertinence . - noun An instance of
familiar behaviour. - noun Close or
habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun close or warm friendship
- noun personal knowledge or information about someone or something
- noun a casual manner
- noun an act of undue intimacy
- noun usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known
Etymologies
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Examples
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She knows how to coach and her name familiarity could help her with recruiting.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Be wary if the therapist indicates that such familiarity is irrelevant to treatment.
Douglas LaBier: When Psychotherapists Fail to Help: Here's Why Douglas LaBier 2010
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Q: Rational if you want to minimize risk; following familiarity is a way to minimize risk.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Where familiarity is based on experience, we might not care much.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Where familiarity is based on experience, we might not care much.
IPSC: trademark and the consumer Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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One of the powerful, deep-seated cognitive biases that doomed Carruthers is called the "familiarity heuristic."
The Familiarity Heuristic: How Sticking with What You Know Could Hurt You 2011
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While the movie told the vast majority of the story through the eyes of Arthur Dent, schlubby English nobody, as a way of giving the viewing audience a point-of-view they could relate to and gain familiarity with during the fantastical events of the story.
Rabid Reads "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams 2009
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Be wary if the therapist indicates that such familiarity is irrelevant to treatment.
Douglas LaBier: When Psychotherapists Fail to Help: Here's Why Douglas LaBier 2010
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While the movie told the vast majority of the story through the eyes of Arthur Dent, schlubby English nobody, as a way of giving the viewing audience a point-of-view they could relate to and gain familiarity with during the fantastical events of the story.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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And – and this I do know from research – familiarity is one of THE key factors in making a purchase at a store (e.g. “Hey, I recognize that book cover!”).
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