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 104 synonyms and 31 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for familiarity

  • acquaintance
  • acquaintanceship
  • affability
  • affection
  • affinity
  • amity
  • association
  • attachment
  • awareness
  • belonging
  • blunder
  • boldness
  • boner
  • chumminess
  • cliquishness
  • closeness
  • clubbiness
  • cognition
  • cognizance
  • commitment
  • comprehension
  • conception
  • constancy
  • conviviality
  • cordiality
  • devotedness
  • devotion
  • discourtesy
  • ease
  • education
  • enlightenment
  • error
  • experience
  • exposure
  • faithfulness
  • faux pas
  • feel
  • fellowship
  • fidelity
  • flub
  • fondness
  • forwardness
  • foul-up
  • freedom
  • freshness
  • friendship
  • fumble
  • gaff
  • gaffe
  • geniality
  • goodwill
  • goof
  • grasp
  • grounding
  • howler
  • immediacy
  • impropriety
  • incivility
  • indiscretion
  • informality
  • information
  • initiation
  • inkling
  • inseparability
  • instruction
  • intimacy
  • introduction
  • involvement
  • kinship
  • knowledge
  • lapse
  • learning
  • liberty
  • love
  • misapprehension
  • miscalculation
  • misconception
  • miscue
  • misjudgment
  • misstatement
  • misstep
  • mistake
  • misunderstanding
  • muff
  • mutuality
  • naturalness
  • nearness
  • notion
  • offence
  • offense
  • openness
  • oversight
  • passion
  • presumption
  • schooling
  • sense
  • slip
  • slipup
  • sociability
  • solecism
  • stumble
  • training
  • unceremoniousness
  • understanding

Antonyms for familiarity

  • aloofness
  • amenity
  • attention
  • callowness
  • civility
  • coldness
  • cool
  • coolness
  • courtesy
  • difficulty
  • distance
  • form
  • formality
  • frigidity
  • gesture
  • greenness
  • ignorance
  • imprisonment
  • incarceration
  • inexperience
  • manners
  • misunderstanding
  • mores
  • pleasantry
  • proprieties
  • remoteness
  • reserve
  • restraint
  • restriction
  • unfamiliarity
  • unfriendliness

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 135 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to familiarity, such as: acquaintance, acquaintanceship, affability, affection, affinity, aloofness, amenity.

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

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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

unaffectedness

  • adroitness
  • affability
  • aplomb
  • artlessness
  • breeze
  • callowness
  • candidness
  • candor
  • carelessness
  • casualness
  • childishness
  • cinch
  • cleverness
  • coltishness
  • composure
  • credulity
  • credulousness
  • dexterity
  • dispatch
  • duck soup
  • easiness
  • easygoingness
  • efficiency
  • effortlessness
  • expertise
  • expertness
  • familiarity
  • flexibility
  • fluency
  • forthrightness
  • frankness
  • freshness
  • genuineness
  • greenness
  • guilelessness
  • gullibility
  • heedlessness
  • honesty
  • idealism
  • ignorance
  • impracticality
  • impressionability
  • inexperience
  • informality
  • ingenuousness
  • innocence
  • innocuousness
  • innoxiousness
  • inoffensiveness
  • insouciance
  • insularity
  • knack
  • lack
  • liberty
  • naiveness
  • naivete
  • naivety
  • naturalness
  • nescience
  • nonchalance
  • obliviousness
  • openness
  • optimism
  • parochialism
  • plainness
  • poise
  • provincialism
  • purity
  • pushover
  • quickness
  • rawness
  • readiness
  • relaxedness
  • setup
  • simplemindedness
  • simpleness
  • simplicity
  • sincerity
  • skillfulness
  • smooth sailing
  • smoothness
  • snap
  • spontaneity
  • straightforwardness
  • thoughtlessness
  • unawareness
  • unceremoniousness
  • unconstraint
  • unfamiliarity
  • unknowingness
  • unpretentiousness
  • unreservedness
  • unrestraint
  • unsophistication
  • unworldliness
  • viridity
  • virtue

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