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familiarity (n.)

  Familiarity breeds contempt.

Publius Syrus (42 b c): Maxim 640.

  If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.