Word of the Day:
familiarity
What It Means
The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
An instance of familiar behaviour.
Familiarity in Context
“The gaunt men carried swords and daggers with a new familiarity, and even the women had poniards belted at their waists.”
Did You Know?
From Middle French familiarité, from Latin familiāritātem. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþnes. Morphologically familiar + -ity.
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