😐 Too common 🤝 Too close

overfamiliarity

7.4

Being too friendly with someone so they feel disrespected

noun
/ˌoʊvərfɪˈmɪljərɪti/

: familiaridad

Overfamiliarity can lead to misunderstandings and a lack of professionalism in the workplace.

Examples

His overfamiliarity with her personal life made her uncomfortable during their conversations.
The challenge for those who practice our synoptic discipline comes from overfamiliarity with these procedures.

Academic text (1993)
She realized that his overfamiliarity had crossed the line into disrespecting her boundaries.

Synonyms

fraternization

vsoverfamiliarity

Formal

8 7.9

Being friendly with people you are not allowed to mix with

is broader personal informality that causes disrespect and boundary problems

familiarity

vsoverfamiliarity

5 6.7

Acting too friendly or close with someone you do not know well

causes lack of respect and crosses proper personal boundaries

enmeshment

vsoverfamiliarity

Specialized

1 8.8

A family situation where personal boundaries are unclear because people are too close

focuses on one person's excessive familiarity causing disrespect

Antonyms

distance

129 5.4

A feeling of not being close to someone

How Familiar

overfamiliarity

7.4

familiarity

10 3.4

unfamiliarity

2 6.1

Surface Forms

overfamiliarity singular

overfamiliarities plural

Morphology

overfamiliarity = overfamiliar (transparent) = over + familiar + ity

Formed by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ity' to 'overfamiliar' (over- + familiar), yielding the state or quality of excessive familiarity.

Etymology

Overfamiliarity comes from over- ('too much') and familiar ('friendly' or 'close like family'), so it means being 'too friendly'. That's why when someone is overfamiliar they can break social rules or lose people's respect.