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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (5)

1. personal knowledge or information about someone or something;
[syn: acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy]

2. usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known;

3. close or warm friendship;
- Example: "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
[syn: familiarity, intimacy, closeness]

4. a casual manner;
[syn: casualness, familiarity]

5. an act of undue intimacy;
[syn: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Familiarity \Fa*mil`iar"i*ty\, n.; pl. Familiarities. [OE. familarite, F. familiarit['e]fr. 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

familiarity n 1: personal knowledge or information about someone or something [syn: acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy] 2: usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known [ant: strangeness, unfamiliarity] 3: close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: familiarity, intimacy, closeness] 4: a casual manner [syn: casualness, familiarity] 5: an act of undue intimacy [syn: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty]