familiarity (n.)
- acquaintance
- affability
- affinity
- amiability
- assumption
- awareness
- boldness
- casualness
- chumminess
- civility
- closeness
- cognition
- cognizance
- communicativeness
- companionability
- compatibility
- comprehension
- congeniality
- cordiality
- corpus
- courtesy
- data
- datum
- ease
- easiness
- easygoingness
- experience
- expertise
- facts
- fellowship
- friendliness
- geniality
- graciousness
- grasp
- gregariousness
- homeliness
- hospitality
- hubris
- impertinence
- imposition
- impropriety
- impudence
- informality
- information
- insolence
- intelligence
- intimacy
- inwardness
- irregularity
- ken
- know-how
- knowing
- knowledge
- lawlessness
- license
- licentiousness
- looseness
- naturalness
- nearness
- openness
- plainness
- presumption
- presumptuousness
- self-knowledge
- simplicity
- sociability
- sociableness
- sociality
- technic
- technics
- technique
- unaffectedness
- unceremoniousness
- unconstraint
- unconventionality
- understanding
- unpretentiousness
- urbanity
Familiarity breeds contempt.
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.
