FAMILIARITY


Meaning of FAMILIARITY in English

Familiarity is used especially in the expression ~ breeds contempt to say that if you know a person or situation very well, you can easily lose respect for that person or become careless in that situation.

PHRASE: V inflects

see also familiar

Collins COBUILD.      Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) .