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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: familiarity n 1: personal knowledge or information about someone or something [syn: {acquaintance}, {conversance}, {conversancy}] 2: usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known [ant: {unfamiliarity}] 3: close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: {intimacy}, {closeness}] 4: a casual manner [syn: {casualness}] 5: an act of undue intimacy [syn: {impropriety}, {indecorum}, {liberty}]
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