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Definition of Familiarity
Familiarity

The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.

Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.

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Familiarity Quotations

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Lord Chesterfield

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de Balzac

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.
Susie Bright

Familiarity Translations

familiarity in German is Vertrautheit, Unbekanntheit
familiarity in Norwegian is fortrolighet
familiarity in Spanish is familiaridad


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