Connection vs Familiarity - What's the difference?
connection | familiarity | Related terms |
(uncountable) The act of connecting.
The point at which two or more things are connected.
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A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
An established communications or transportation link.
(transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
A kinship relationship between people.
The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
*, II.8:
Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
* 1927 , G K Chesterton, The Return of Don Quixote , p.5:
An instance of familiar behaviour.
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
Connection is a related term of familiarity.
As nouns the difference between connection and familiarity
is that connection is (uncountable) the act of connecting while familiarity is the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.connection
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Alternative forms
* connexion , (abbreviation)Noun
- the connection between overeating and obesity
- My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
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- As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
- computers linked by a network connection
- I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection .
- The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
familiarity
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Noun
(familiarities)- It is also folly and injustice to deprive childrenof their fathers familiaritie , and ever to shew them a surly, austere, grim, and disdainefull countenance, hoping thereby to keepe them in awfull feare and duteous obedience.
- Murrel did not in the least object to being called a monkey, yet he always felt a slight distaste when Julian Archer called him one.It had to do with a fine shade between familiarity and intimacy which men like Murrel are never ready to disregard, however ready they may be to black their faces.
