FAMILIARITY Synonyms: 108 Similar and Opposite Words

familiarity

noun

fə-ˌmi-lē-ˈ(y)er-ə-tē

Definition of familiarity

as in intimacy

the state of being in a very personal or private relationship the elderly couple enjoys a familiarity that is the result of many years of happy marriage

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as in mistake

a socially improper or unsuitable act or remark placing his hand on my shoulder was just one familiarity by the car salesman that I did not appreciate

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as in acquaintance

knowledge gained by personal experience the restaurant critic's considerable familiarity with restaurant kitchens should stand her in good stead

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Recent Examples of familiarity The remaining shades include Townsend Harbour Brown, White Down, and Nelson Blue, all of which are tinged with the comfort of familiarity. — Kelly Dawson, Architectural Digest, 14 Oct. 2026 And while the Dodgers haven’t done anything against them yet, that familiarity could help in the rest of the series. — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 That familiarity has certainly worked in the movie’s favor among some viewers, particularly those invested in its maximalist approach to both familial melodrama and semi-surreal scares. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Oct. 2026 Puri said students should build familiarity with AI tools but not neglect the skills that remain central when working with them. — Corynn Winston, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for familiarity

Recent Examples of Synonyms for familiarity

Noun

Letters could sustain relationships between people separated by oceans, and sometimes those relationships achieved an intimacy unavailable to people who occupied the same rooms.

— Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
That’s my own fear of intimacy, of getting involved in a community.

— Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of intimacy

Noun

And if so, did Democrats make a mistake by not investing earlier?

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Tampa Bay, which won the AL pennant by forcing opponents into mistakes, committed one error, made two other misplays that could have been charged as errors and had a runner thrown out at the plate.

— Ronald Blum, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of mistake

Noun

But Griffin’s focus on the Times story and other fallout has, acquaintances say, continued.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026
That night, Pike, her boyfriend, 17-year-old Tadaryl Shipp, and an acquaintance, Shadolla Peterson, 18, lured Slemmer to an isolated area behind the agricultural campus steam plant.

— Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of acquaintance

Noun

Burks said that leadership blunders are at the problem’s crux.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
Soon-to-be Cy Young Award winner Jacob Misiorowski held the Rays to just one run in his five innings, but certainly not without the help of some Rays baserunning blunders.

— Ryan Morik OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of blunder

Noun

Serving as president since 2024—just months after the team was first created—Smith has helped build the franchise from the ground up, overseeing everything from its business operations to the fan experience.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Brown, Gibbs argued, has the experience necessary to represent rural Ohioans at the federal level.

— Saige Miller, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of experience

Noun

Government officials previously said that these 11 families split from a common male-line ancestor some 600 years ago, and are now at least 36 degrees of kinship from Naruhito.

— Chad de Guzman, Time, 26 Oct. 2026
At first glance, their already tight kinship, and all their many overlapping businesses, suggest that a new SpaceX-Tesla makes sense.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

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