familiarity

Other forms of familiarity

plural

familiarities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about familiarity

What does familiarity mean?

familiarity means "personal knowledge or information about someone or something". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in familiarity?

familiarity has 5 syllables: fa-mil-iar-i-ty. The stress falls on "iar". In IPA it is /fəˌmɪˈljɛɹəti/.

What is another word for familiarity?

Close synonyms include acquaintance, conversance, conversancy, intimacy, closeness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of familiarity?

The recorded antonyms are unfamiliarity.

Is familiarity a common word?

familiarity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with familiarity?

1 word rhymes with familiarity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.