familiarity

The word “familiarity” has 6 syllables: fa-mil-i-ar-i-ty

It's pronounced as /fəˌmɪl.iˈær.ɪ.ti/


What is synonym and antonym for familiarity?

In the thesaurus, “familiarity” has 18 synonyms and 8 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for familiarity along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for familiarity

  • acquaintance
  • awareness
  • belonging
  • blunder
  • boldness
  • closeness
  • error
  • experience
  • faux pas
  • freshness
  • indiscretion
  • intimacy
  • kinship
  • knowledge
  • mistake
  • offence
  • sense
  • understanding

Antonyms for familiarity

  • attention
  • civility
  • courtesy
  • distance
  • formality
  • gesture
  • ignorance
  • unfamiliarity

Meanings of familiarity

  • noun
    1. The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
    2. Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
    3. An instance of familiar behaviour.
    4. Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.

Example Sentences

  • His familiarity with the city made him an excellent tour guide.
  • The job interview assessed not only skills but also the candidate's familiarity with industry trends.
  • Her familiarity with the subject matter gave her a clear advantage in the discussion.
  • The novel's familiarity with everyday life resonated with many readers.
  • Building familiarity with the new software took some time, but it eventually became second nature.

On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to familiarity, such as: acquaintance, attention, awareness, belonging, blunder, boldness, civility.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

accomplishments

  • ability
  • achievements
  • awareness
  • backdrop
  • culture
  • education
  • environment
  • executions
  • expertise
  • familiarity
  • fulfillments
  • fulfilments
  • grasp
  • history
  • implementations
  • insight
  • intelligence
  • judgment
  • know-how
  • learning
  • observation
  • perpetrations
  • philosophy
  • power
  • practice
  • proficiency
  • qualification
  • realizations
  • recognition
  • science
  • successes
  • theory
  • tradition
  • training
  • upbringing
  • wisdom

ease

  • abandon
  • abandonment
  • abate
  • abbreviate
  • abet
  • abridge
  • accelerate
  • adroitness
  • advance
  • affability
  • affluence
  • aid
  • allay
  • alleviate
  • alleviation
  • ameliorate
  • amend
  • anesthetize
  • aplomb
  • appease
  • appeasement
  • ardor
  • assist
  • assuage
  • assuagement
  • ataraxia
  • attend to
  • bed of roses
  • better
  • blank check
  • breeze
  • calm
  • calming
  • calmness
  • carelessness
  • carte blanche
  • casualness
  • catnapping
  • cheer
  • cinch
  • clear the way
  • cleverness
  • clip
  • collapse
  • comfort
  • composure
  • compress
  • condense
  • constrict
  • content
  • contentment
  • contract
  • correct
  • crop
  • cure
  • curtail
  • cut
  • cut back
  • cut down
  • de-escalate
  • decline
  • decompression
  • decrease
  • deflate
  • dent
  • deplete
  • detach
  • dexterity
  • diminish
  • diminishment
  • disburden
  • disengage
  • disentangle
  • dispatch
  • dock
  • doctor
  • dolce far niente
  • downscale
  • downsize
  • dozing
  • drop
  • duck soup
  • dwindle
  • easiness
  • easygoingness
  • ebb
  • edge
  • efficiency
  • effortlessness
  • emend
  • enhance
  • enrich
  • enthusiasm
  • evaporate
  • excess
  • excessiveness
  • expedite
  • expertise
  • expertness
  • extricate
  • exuberance
  • facilitate
  • fall
  • fall away
  • familiarity
  • fervor
  • fix
  • flag
  • flexibility
  • fluency
  • forward
  • free
  • free hand
  • further
  • give out
  • gratification
  • grease
  • handle
  • happiness
  • hasten
  • heal
  • heedlessness
  • help
  • hurry
  • idleness
  • immoderacy
  • improve
  • impulsiveness
  • impulsivity
  • inactivity
  • inch
  • incontinence
  • indiscretion
  • induce
  • indulgence
  • inertia
  • inertness
  • informality
  • insert
  • insouciance
  • intemperance
  • join
  • knack
  • knock down
  • lazing
  • leisure
  • lessen
  • let up
  • let up on
  • liberty
  • licentiousness
  • lift
  • lighten
  • lightheartedness
  • loose
  • loosen
  • lower
  • luxury
  • make easier
  • maneuver
  • meliorate
  • mend
  • minimize
  • mitigate
  • mitigation
  • moderate
  • moderation
  • modify
  • modulate
  • mollification
  • mollify
  • napping
  • naturalness
  • nick
  • nonchalance
  • nurse
  • offhandedness
  • open the door
  • pacify
  • pall
  • palliate
  • pare
  • peace
  • peace of mind
  • peacefulness
  • perfect
  • permissiveness
  • phase down
  • placidity
  • poise
  • promote
  • prosperity
  • prune
  • pushover
  • qualify
  • quicken
  • quickness
  • quiet
  • quietness
  • quietude
  • readiness
  • recede
  • recklessness
  • rectify
  • reduce
  • refine
  • reform
  • relax
  • relaxation
  • relaxedness
  • release
  • relent
  • relief
  • relieve
  • remedy
  • remit
  • remove
  • repair
  • repose
  • requiescence
  • respite
  • rest
  • restfulness
  • resting
  • retrench
  • right
  • run interference for
  • rush
  • salving
  • satisfaction
  • security
  • sereneness
  • serenity
  • set right
  • setup
  • shorten
  • shrink
  • silence
  • simplicity
  • simplify
  • sink
  • skillfulness
  • slack
  • slacken
  • slash
  • sleep
  • slide
  • slip
  • slumber
  • slumbering
  • smooth
  • smooth sailing
  • smoothness
  • snap
  • snoozing
  • soften
  • soothe
  • soothing
  • speed
  • speed up
  • spirit
  • spontaneity
  • spontaneousness
  • squeeze
  • steer
  • still
  • stillness
  • streamline
  • subside
  • supinity
  • taper
  • taper off
  • temper
  • thoughtlessness
  • tranquility
  • tranquilize
  • tranquillity
  • tranquilness
  • trim
  • truncate
  • unaffectedness
  • unbind
  • unclog
  • unconstraint
  • undo
  • unfasten
  • uninhibitedness
  • unreservedness
  • unrestraint
  • unself-consciousness
  • untangle
  • untie
  • untighten
  • vanish
  • wane
  • wantonness
  • warmth
  • weaken
  • whittle
  • wildness
  • zeal
  • zealotry
  • zealousness

easygoingness

  • adroitness
  • affability
  • apathy
  • aplomb
  • assurance
  • breeze
  • calmness
  • casualness
  • cinch
  • cleverness
  • collectedness
  • composedness
  • composure
  • confidence
  • cool
  • coolness
  • countenance
  • detachment
  • dexterity
  • dispatch
  • duck soup
  • easiness
  • efficiency
  • effortlessness
  • equanimity
  • equilibrium
  • expertise
  • expertness
  • familiarity
  • flexibility
  • fluency
  • impassivity
  • imperturbability
  • indifference
  • informality
  • insensibility
  • insouciance
  • knack
  • laid-backness
  • liberty
  • naturalness
  • nonchalance
  • numbness
  • phlegm
  • placidity
  • poise
  • pushover
  • quickness
  • readiness
  • relaxedness
  • repose
  • sangfroid
  • self-assurance
  • self-assuredness
  • self-composedness
  • self-confidence
  • self-possession
  • self-trust
  • serenity
  • setup
  • simplicity
  • skillfulness
  • smooth sailing
  • smoothness
  • snap
  • spontaneity
  • tranquility
  • tranquillity
  • tranquilness
  • unaffectedness
  • unceremoniousness
  • unconcern
  • unconstraint
  • unreservedness
  • unrestraint

gaff

  • accommodation
  • accoutrement
  • appliance
  • apprehend
  • apprehension
  • appropriation
  • bag
  • bamboozle
  • beat
  • beguile
  • betray
  • bilk
  • bitch
  • black box
  • bleed
  • bloomer
  • blooper
  • bluff
  • blunder
  • bobble
  • boner
  • boo boo
  • boo-boo
  • boob
  • booby trap
  • book
  • brace
  • breach
  • brick
  • buffalo
  • bungle
  • burn
  • bust
  • captivity
  • capture
  • catch
  • cheat
  • chisel
  • chouse
  • clanger
  • clinker
  • clip
  • collar
  • commitment
  • con
  • confinement
  • constraint
  • contraption
  • cozen
  • crime
  • crimp
  • deceive
  • defraud
  • delude
  • detain
  • detention
  • device
  • diddle
  • dingbat
  • discourtesy
  • do
  • do a number on
  • do in
  • doodad
  • doohickey
  • double-cross
  • drop
  • dupe
  • error
  • euchre
  • exploit
  • extort
  • failing
  • failure
  • fake out
  • fall
  • false step
  • familiarity
  • fast-talk
  • fault
  • faux pas
  • fiddle
  • fleece
  • flimflam
  • flub
  • fluff
  • foible
  • fool
  • foul-up
  • frailty
  • fumble
  • furnishings
  • gaffe
  • gammon
  • gear
  • get
  • gimcrack
  • gimmick
  • gizmo
  • glom
  • goof
  • goof-up
  • gouge
  • grab
  • grabber
  • gull
  • habiliments
  • have
  • have on
  • heat
  • hoax
  • hoodwink
  • hook
  • hornswoggle
  • hose
  • howler
  • humbug
  • hustle
  • idiot box
  • implement
  • imprison
  • imprisonment
  • improperness
  • impropriety
  • imprudence
  • inaccuracy
  • incarcerate
  • incarceration
  • incivility
  • indecorum
  • indelicacy
  • indiscretion
  • infraction
  • jail
  • jailing
  • jigger
  • job
  • juggle
  • kick
  • kid
  • lapse
  • lead one down the garden path
  • lead one up the garden path
  • machine
  • machinery
  • means
  • mechanism
  • milk
  • misapprehension
  • miscalculation
  • miscomprehension
  • misconception
  • misconstruction
  • miscue
  • misdescription
  • misfire
  • misguide
  • misimpression
  • misinform
  • misinterpretation
  • misjudgment
  • mislead
  • misreading
  • misstatement
  • misstep
  • mistake
  • misunderstanding
  • mitt
  • muff
  • mulct
  • nab
  • nail
  • negligence
  • net
  • nick
  • nip
  • nobble
  • offence
  • offense
  • omission
  • outfit
  • overcharge
  • oversight
  • paraphernalia
  • pick up
  • pickle
  • pinch
  • pluck
  • pratfall
  • preventive custody
  • protective custody
  • provisions
  • pull
  • pull in
  • put on
  • put the arm on
  • put the cuffs on
  • ream
  • restraining
  • rip off
  • rook
  • round up
  • roust
  • run-in
  • screw
  • screwup
  • secure
  • seize
  • sell a bill of goods to
  • sequestering
  • setup
  • shake down
  • short
  • shortchange
  • sidetrack
  • sin
  • skin
  • skunk
  • slip
  • slip of the tongue
  • slipup
  • snafu
  • snag
  • snare
  • snooker
  • snow
  • soak
  • solecism
  • spoof
  • squeeze
  • stick
  • stiff
  • sting
  • string along
  • stuff
  • stumble
  • suck in
  • sucker
  • supplies
  • sweep
  • swindle
  • tab
  • tackle
  • tag
  • take for a ride
  • take in
  • take prisoner
  • take to the cleaners
  • tease
  • thimblerig
  • thingamajig
  • tools
  • toss in jail
  • transgression
  • trespass
  • trick
  • trip
  • utensils
  • venial sin
  • vice
  • victimize
  • violation
  • whatchamacallit
  • whatsis
  • whosis
  • widget
  • wrench
  • wrest
  • wring

gaffe

  • bloomer
  • blooper
  • blunder
  • bobble
  • boner
  • boo-boo
  • boob
  • brick
  • clanger
  • clinker
  • discourtesy
  • error
  • familiarity
  • fault
  • faux pas
  • flub
  • fluff
  • foul-up
  • fumble
  • gaff
  • goof
  • howler
  • impropriety
  • inaccuracy
  • incivility
  • indecorum
  • indiscretion
  • lapse
  • misapprehension
  • miscalculation
  • miscomprehension
  • misconception
  • misconstruction
  • miscue
  • misdescription
  • misimpression
  • misinterpretation
  • misjudgment
  • misreading
  • misstatement
  • misstep
  • mistake
  • misunderstanding
  • muff
  • offence
  • offense
  • oversight
  • pratfall
  • putting foot in mouth
  • screwup
  • slip
  • slipup
  • snafu
  • solecism
  • stumble
  • trip

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