familiarity
/fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.40 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Murrel did not in the least object to being called a monkey, yet he always felt a slight distaste when Julian Archer called him one.[…]It had to do with a fine shade between familiarity and intimacy which men like Murrel are never ready to disregard, however ready they may be to black their faces."
- "The gaunt men carried swords and daggers with a new familiarity, and even the women had poniards belted at their waists."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle French familiarité, from Latin familiāritātem. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþnes. Morphologically familiar + -ity.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/