Antonyms for Familiarity
fəˌmɪl iˈær ɪ ti, -mɪlˈyær-fa·mil·iar·i·ty

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1. familiarity

   Acquaintance between persons supposes that each knows the other; we may know a public man by his writings or speeches, and by sight, but can not claim acquaintance unless he personally knows us. There may be pleasant acquaintance with little companionship; and conversely, much companionship with little acquaintance, as between busy clerks at adjoining desks. So there may be association in business without intimacy or friendship. Acquaintance admits of many degrees, from a slight or passing to a familiar or intimate acquaintance; but acquaintance unmodified commonly signifies less than familiarity or intimacy. As regards persons, familiarity is becoming restricted to the undesirable sense, as in the proverb, "Familiarity breeds contempt;" hence, in personal relations, the word intimacy, which refers to mutual knowledge of thought and feeling, is now uniformly preferred. Friendship includes acquaintance with some degree of intimacy, and ordinarily companionship, though in a wider sense friendship may exist between those who have never met, but know each other only by word and deed. Acquaintance does not involve friendship, for one may be well acquainted with an enemy. Fellowship involves not merely acquaintance and companionship, but sympathy as well. There may be much friendship without much fellowship, as between those whose homes or pursuits are far apart. There may be pleasant fellowship which does not reach the fulness of friendship. Compare ATTACHMENT; FRIENDSHIP; LOVE. As regards studies, pursuits, etc., acquaintance is less than familiarity, which supposes minute knowledge of particulars, arising often from long experience or association.

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, ignoring, inexperience, unfamiliarity

   Synonyms:
   acquaintance, association, companionship, experience, fellowship, friendship, intimacy, knowledge

   Preposition:
   Acquaintance with a subject; of one person with another; between persons.

Matched Categories

1. • Informality
   • Information
   • Misbehavior
   • Usualness

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancynoun

   personal knowledge or information about someone or something

   Antonyms:
   strangeness, unfamiliarity

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, liberty, casualness, conversancy, closeness, friend, familiarity, indecorum, impropriety, acquaintance, conversance, acquaintanceship

2. familiaritynoun

   usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known

   Antonyms:
   unfamiliarity, strangeness

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, casualness, conversancy, closeness, liberty, indecorum, impropriety, acquaintance, conversance

3. familiarity, intimacy, closenessnoun

   close or warm friendship

   "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"

   Antonyms:
   unfamiliarity, strangeness

   Synonyms:
   conversance, affaire, conversancy, parsimoniousness, amour, impropriety, casualness, meanness, liberty, niggardliness, liaison, closeness, nearness, affair, involvement, acquaintance, familiarity, tightfistedness, secretiveness, minginess, stuffiness, tightness, intimacy, indecorum, niggardness, parsimony

4. casualness, familiaritynoun

   a casual manner

   Antonyms:
   strangeness, unfamiliarity

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, casualness, conversancy, closeness, liberty, familiarity, indecorum, impropriety, acquaintance, conversance

5. familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, libertynoun

   an act of undue intimacy

   Antonyms:
   unfamiliarity, strangeness

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, indecency, autonomy, casualness, conversancy, closeness, indecorousness, liberty, familiarity, indecorum, impropriety, acquaintance, shore leave, conversance, improperness

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1. familiaritynoun

   Antonyms:
   unfamiliarity, strangeness

   Synonyms:
   intimacy, conversance, acquaintance, informality, freedom, unconstraint, disrespect, unreserve

How to use Familiarity in a sentence?

1. Honore' de Balzac:

   Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity.

2. Nina Stössinger:

   To pinpoint the kind of familiarity... the typeface should evoke, we also looked at pictures of old armchairs, in chair terms, we were going for a practical interpretation of a beautiful family heirloom ; durable upholstery, nothing overtly plushy or nostalgic.

3. Stephen Innes:

   Much the same could be true right now about the escalation of tariffs (and) with time, investors have managed to sidestep them and returned to the familiarity of focusing on the data, which in the case of the U.S. economy, still looks good.

4. Ben Schlappig:

   The airplane feels like home now, i feel as at home in Emirates first class, as I do anywhere else. I know every aspect of the seats ; there's a certain familiarity with the staff ; I tend to run into the same crews.

5. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1:

   If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

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