familiarity
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- noun
- /fəˌmɪl.jəˈrɪ.ti/
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familiaridad
- Students in introductory courses indicated a lack of familiarity with basic writing and mathematics skills.
- lack of familiarity
- gain familiarity
- a degree of familiarity
People often conflate familiarity with the truth.
- People often conflate familiarity with the truth.
- So it's like skill and, and familiarity with it.
- Does anybody, for instance, have any familiarity with what is called space syntax?
- So it sort of weights our brain away from a sense of familiarity and toward novelty.
- And people really feel like that's a way of opening a door, creating familiarity.
- But this would restore some, some meaning, some unity, some some sense of familiarity to her life, right?
- So it's the the biggest issue out there is people's comfort and familiarity with the ambient anxiety that they live in.
- I'm in a country which is very far, far away from home, very far away from familiarity.
- But Deja vu is the sense that it can be like almost disturbing intense sense of familiarity.
Examples
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And so just being able to tap into this familiarity helped.
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You were recommended for the journey because of your familiarity with the territory.
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And, you know, so young and also no familiarity with show business, really.
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So you see that familiarity again in this book.
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But what I remember is the familiarity with police officers, court staff.
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Also important to the selection process was my familiarity with the music.
Academic text (2011) -
And so we all have some familiarity with gross domestic product.
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We need all the skills of directors of the past, plus familiarity with current technology.
Academic text (1990) -
The researchers also measured improvement in familiarity with CHI terms in the user group.
Academic text (2012) -
His familiarity with the local culture made it easier for him to connect with the community.
Synonyms
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Skill or knowledge you get by doing something over time
The state of knowing a subject and having experience with it
Knowledge of a subject or situation
Antonyms
How Familiar
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Familiarity comes from the Latin word familiaris, meaning 'of the household', and is the same root as family and familiar. So familiarity means knowing something well because it feels like part of your everyday life.