familiarity
fuh mi lye ruh tee
- n personal knowledge or information about someone or something
- n usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known
- n close or warm friendship
- n a casual manner
- n an act of undue intimacy
- If you're of a certain age (under 35) and temperament (partial to video games), the familiarity of Kung-Fu Election should strike you like a katana to the skull.
- For South Koreans, the current economic meltdown has a sickening familiarity.
- Still, old practices died hard; the same virtues of loyalty and familiarity were rewarded by new bosses who expected political newcomers to pay their dues--and wait their turn.