familiarity
10
3.4
- noun
- /fəˌmɪl.jəˈrɪ.ti/
:
confianza
- Close contact with the workers facilitated what Lofland and Lofland (1994) described as "intimate familiarity" with informants.
- intimate familiarity
- familiarity and intimacy
- familiarity and closeness
You are creating familiarity and physical connection.
- You are creating familiarity and physical connection.
- And there's a a ease and familiarity and friendship that arises between them.
- And that familiarity was something that, you know, we knew each other, OK.
- And she felt a kind of kinship or familiarity with with as she's she's going into it and her writing process reflects that too.
Examples
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But then, for a moment, he ponders the familiarity of her voice.
Fiction book (1998) -
With a sudden familiarity, she felt the air shift in front of her.
Fiction book (1999) -
You are creating familiarity and physical connection.
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Perhaps it is the familiarity alone that keeps them here.
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I have never been afraid of familiarity.
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I was struck by the sense of familiarity as it seemed like one big family photo gallery inside.
Academic text (1998) -
And there's a a ease and familiarity and friendship that arises between them.
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And another element is it would seem like closeness, physical closeness and familiarity can breed love.
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Such, then, was the familiarity between foreign aristocrats and lesser-born intellectuals in eighteenth-century Rome.
Academic text (1995) -
Her familiarity with the team made it easy for her to contribute suggestions during meetings.
Synonyms
122
4.2
A close loving relationship where people share personal feelings
103
1.0
A friendly, kind feeling in the way someone speaks or acts
26
2.8
A warm emotional relationship between people who trust each other
16
1.0
A kind and pleasant way of treating other people
3
3.7
A relaxed, informal attitude that is not strict
2
5.7
Warm friendly behavior that makes people feel welcome
Antonyms
How Familiar
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Familiarity comes from the Latin familiaris, meaning 'of the household', and shares its root with family and familiar. So familiarity can mean a relaxed, friendly closeness, like treating people as if they are family.