Definition of Familiarity

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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

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Charles de Gaulle

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
William Bernbach

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
Christopher Walken

Familiarity breeds contempt.
Aesop

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
David Foster Wallace

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
Brian Greene

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

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
George Sand

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

Familiarity Translations

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

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