Familiarity vs. Similarity — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Familiarity and Similarity
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Familiarity
Acquaintance with or knowledge of something
I have little familiarity with that software program.
Similarity
The quality or condition of being similar; resemblance.
Familiarity
The quality of being known from past experience
The familiarity of the buildings made us realize that we must be near the hotel.
Similarity
A corresponding aspect or feature; equivalence
A similarity of writing styles.
Familiarity
Established friendship or intimacy
Cooperation that came easily because of the partners' familiarity.
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Similarity
Closeness of appearance to something else.
Familiarity
Improper or unduly intimate friendliness; forwardness
Found the familiarity of the sales clerk offensive.
Similarity
(philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
Familiarity
An act characterized by forwardness.
Similarity
(maths) A transformation that preserves angles and the ratios of distances
Familiarity
The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.
Similarity
The property of two matrices being similar.
Familiarity
Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.
Similarity
The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features.
Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all.
Familiarity
An instance of familiar behaviour.
Similarity
The quality of being similar
Familiarity
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
Similarity
A Getalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit
Familiarity
The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.
Familiarity
Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.
Familiarity
Personal knowledge or information about someone or something
Familiarity
Usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known
Familiarity
Close or warm friendship;
The absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy
Familiarity
A casual manner
Familiarity
An act of undue intimacy
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