n., pl. -ties.

1. Considerable acquaintance with.
2. Established friendship; intimacy.
3. 1. An excessively familiar or informal act; an impropriety.
   2. A sexual advance.
4. The quality or condition of being familiar.

noun

1. Personal knowledge derived from participation or observation: acquaintance, experience. See knowledge/ignorance.
2. The condition of being friends: chumminess, closeness, companionship, comradeship, fellowship, friendship, intimacy. See love/hatred.
3. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident: assumption, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, forwardness, gall¹, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness. Informal brass, crust, sauce, uppishness, uppityness. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude, courtesy/discourtesy.

n

Definition: friendliness
Antonyms: aloofness, cool, distance, frigidity, reserve, unfriendliness

n

Definition: knowledgeableness
Antonyms: ignorance, unfamiliarity

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Quotes:

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." - Alfred North Whitehead

"Familiarity breeds contempt; and children." - Mark Twain

"Familiarity breeds contempt." - Publilius Syrus

"Familiar acts are beautiful through love." - Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Sweets grown common lose their dear delight." - William Shakespeare

"Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds." - Antoine Rivarol

See more famous quotes about Familiarity

Dansk (Danish)
n. - fortrolighed, familiaritet, bekendthed

idioms:

• familiarity breeds contempt    man mister respekten for den man kender for godt

Nederlands (Dutch)
bekendheid (met iets/ iemand), (seksuele) intimiteit, vrijpostig gedrag

Français (French)
n. - familiarité, intimité

idioms:

• familiarity breeds contempt    la familiarité engendre le mépris (Prov)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Vertrautheit, Vertraulichkeit, Intimität

idioms:

• familiarity breeds contempt    zu große Vertrautheit erzeugt Verachtung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - οικειότητα

idioms:

• familiarity breeds contempt    ουδείς προφήτης δεκτός εστίν εν τη πατρίδι αυτού

Português (Portuguese)
n. - familiaridade (f)

idioms:

• familiarity breeds contempt    a distância impõe respeito

Русский (Russian)
близкое знакомство, фамильярность

idioms:

• familiarity breeds contempt    чем ближе знаешь, тем меньше почитаешь

Español (Spanish)
n. - familiaridad, conocimiento, confianza, exceso de confianza

idioms:

• familiarity breeds contempt    menospreciar algo o alguien que se conoce bien

Svenska (Swedish)
nära bekantskap, förtrolighet, påflugenhet - familiarity breeds contempt

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
亲密, 精通, 熟悉

idioms:

• familiarity breeds contempt    亲不敬, 熟生蔑

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 親密, 精通, 熟悉

idioms:

• familiarity breeds contempt    親不敬, 熟生蔑

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 친밀

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - よく知っていること, 精通, 熟知, 親しみ, 懇意, なれなれしさ, 親密, 親しさ

idioms:

• familiarity breeds contempt    慣れすぎは侮りのもと

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حميميه , ألفه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בקיאות, חוסר-גינונים, חופשיות, ידידות, קרבה אינטימית‬

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