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Familiarity is defined as knowledge of someone or something, or to a feeling of comfort and closeness with someone or something.

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When you have heard of a brand of computer, this is an example of a familiarity with the computer.
When you have lunch with an old friend and fall back into the patterns of your past, this is an example of feeling a sense of familiarity.

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See familiarity in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. familiarities

close association; intimacy
free and intimate behavior; absence of formality and ceremony
intimacy that is too bold or unwelcome
a highly intimate act, remark, etc.; often, specif., a caress or other act of sexual intimacy
close acquaintance (with something)

Origin: ME familiarite < OFr < L familiaritas < familiaris: see familiar

See familiarity in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. fa·mil·iar·i·ties

Considerable acquaintance with.
Established friendship; intimacy.
a. An excessively familiar or informal act; an impropriety.
b. A sexual advance.
The quality or condition of being familiar.

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