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Cordiality vs Familiarity - What's the difference?

cordiality | familiarity | Related terms |

Cordiality is a related term of familiarity.


As nouns the difference between cordiality and familiarity

is that cordiality is the practice of being cordial while familiarity is the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.

cordiality

English

Noun

  • The practice of being cordial.
  • A friendly utterance.
    • to exchange cordialities with people

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    familiarity

    English

    Noun

    (familiarities)
  • The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
  • *, II.8:
    • 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.
  • Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
  • * 1927 , G K Chesterton, The Return of Don Quixote , p.5:
    • 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.
  • An instance of familiar behaviour.
  • Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.

    • Derived terms

    * familiarity breeds contempt