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familiar strangers

familiar strangers is the plural of familiar stranger.

Meaning of familiar stranger

Noun

familiar stranger (plural familiar strangers)

  1. (social psychology) A stranger who is nonetheless recognized by another from regularly sharing a common physical space such as a street or bus stop, but with whom one does not interact.
    • The familiar stranger is someone we meet every morning at the bus stop or at the campus, but we have never talked with.2018, Davide Spallazzo, Ilaria Mariani, Location-Based Mobile Games: Design Perspectives, Springer, →ISBN, page 39

Questions about familiar strangers

What is familiar strangers the plural of?
Familiar strangers is the plural of familiar stranger.

Words near familiar strangers in the dictionary

  1. familially
  2. familiar
  3. familiar fraud
  4. familiar frauds
  5. familiar stranger
  6. familiar strangers
  7. familiarisation
  8. familiarisations
  9. familiarise
  10. familiarised
  11. familiariser

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