familiarity

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun personal knowledge or information about someone or something
  2. noun usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known
  3. noun close or warm friendship

Etymology

From Middle French familiarité, from Latin familiāritātem. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþnes. Morphologically familiar + -ity.

In classic literature

Synonyms

acquaintance, conversance, conversancy

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