Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Familiarity"
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) 1.7 (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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