Familiar vs Typical - What's the difference?

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Familiar is a related term of typical.

As adjectives the difference between familiar and typical

is that familiar is familial while typical is capturing the overall sense of a thing.

As a noun typical is

anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

familiar

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Known to one.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}

Acquainted.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}

Intimate or friendly.

* Shakespeare

Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar.

Inappropriately intimate or friendly.

(Camden)

Of or pertaining to a family; familial.

* Byron

familiar feuds

Synonyms

* (acquainted) acquainted * close, friendly, intimate, personal * (inappropriately intimate or friendly) cheeky, fresh, impudent

Antonyms

* (known to one) unfamiliar, unknown * (acquainted) unacquainted * (intimate) cold, cool, distant, impersonal, standoffish, unfriendly

Derived terms

* overfamiliar * familiarity * familiarly

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A member of one's family or household.

(obsolete) A close friend.

*, II.i.4.2:

a friend of mine, that finding a receipt in Brassavola, would needs take hellebore in substance, and try it on his own person; but had not some of his familiars come to visit him by chance, he had by his indiscretion hazarded himself; many such I have observed.

An attendant spirit, often in animal form.

The witch’s familiar was a black cat.

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typical

English

Alternative forms

* typicall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Capturing the overall sense of a thing.

Characteristically representing something by form, group, idea or type.

Normal, average; to be expected.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=

, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.}}

Synonyms

* See also

Antonyms

* atypical

Derived terms

* typicality * typically * typicalness

Noun

(en noun)

Anything that is typical, normal, or standard.

Antipsychotic drugs can be divided into typicals and atypicals.

Among the moths, typicals were more common than melanics.

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