[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]