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Word entry · 11 letters

familiarity

Best crossword clue

"Close knowledge"

11 letters · collected on this word page

11 lettersPronunciation /fəmɪliˈæɹɪti/Part of speech nounSorted aafiiilmrtyStarts with FEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an act of undue intimacy

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • Do not keep familiarity with any but those, with whom you may improve your time.
  • The gaunt men carried swords and daggers with a new familiarity, and even the women had poniards belted at their waists.
  • The objects around have been seen so often, that they have at last become, as it were, unseen; their familiarity does not carry us out of ourselves, for all their associations are our own.

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