familiarity

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. intimacy, acquaintance, fellowship; knowledge; informality, forwardness, impudence. See friend, sociality, insolence.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Acquaintance with people]

Syn. friendliness, acquaintanceship, intimacy; see friendship 1 , 2 .

2. [Acquaintance with things]

Syn. conversance, experience, knowledge, sense of use, the feel of, being at home with, thorough knowledge, mastery, cognition, comprehension; see also awareness , experience 3 .

3. [Informality]

Syn. casualness, ease, presumptuousness, liberties; see informality , rudeness .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

knowledge acquaintance, association, intimacy, closeness, firsthand knowledge, conversance, understanding, cognizance, awareness, feel. ''A magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness.''—Ouida

2. friendliness informality, neighborliness, intimacy, closeness, naturalness.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. Personal knowledge derived from participation or observation: acquaintance, experience. See KNOWLEDGE. 2. The condition of being friends: chumminess, closeness, companionship, comradeship, fellowship, friendship, intimacy. See LOVE. 3. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident: assumption, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, forwardness, gall1, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness. Informal: brass, crust, sauce, uppishness, uppityness. See ATTITUDE, COURTESY.