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familiarity

noun
/fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/UK/fəmɪˈljæɹɪti/

Etymology

From Middle French familiarité, from Latin familiāritātem. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþnes. Morphologically familiar + -ity.

  1. derived from familiāris
  2. inherited from familiar,familier
  3. suffixed as familiarity — “familiar + ity”

Definitions

  1. The state of being extremely friendly

    The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.

    • It is also folly and injustice to deprive children[…]of their fathers familiaritie, and ever to shew them a surly, austere, grim, and disdainefull countenance, hoping thereby to keepe them in awfull feare and duteous obedience.
    • Do not keep familiarity with any but those, with whom you may improve your time.

  2. Undue intimacy

    Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.

  3. An instance of familiar behaviour.

    • The gaunt men carried swords and daggers with a new familiarity, and even the women had poniards belted at their waists.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something

      Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.

      • The objects around have been seen so often, that they have at last become, as it were, unseen; their familiarity does not carry us out of ourselves, for all their associations are our own.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at familiarity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01familiarity02inappropriate03unpleasant04pleasant05buffoon06fashion07practical08knowledge

A definitional loop anchored at familiarity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at familiarity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA