Definition of Familiarity
Familiarity
The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.
Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.
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Familiarity Quotations
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de Balzac
I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
Christopher Walken
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
David Foster Wallace
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Aesop
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
William Bernbach
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
Brian Greene
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Lord Chesterfield
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Charles de Gaulle
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
Michael Stipe
Familiarity Translations
familiarity in German is Vertrautheit, Unbekanntheit
familiarity in Norwegian is fortrolighet
familiarity in Spanish is familiaridad
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