Familiarity vs Brotherhood - What's the difference?
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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.
The state of being brothers or a brother.
An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
As nouns the difference between familiarity and brotherhood
is that familiarity is the state of being extremely friendly; intimacy while brotherhood is the state of being brothers or a brother.familiarity
English
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.
Derived terms
* familiarity breeds contemptbrotherhood
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- A brotherhood of venerable trees. - .