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Similar vs. Familiarity — What's the Difference?

Similar vs. Familiarity — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Similar and Familiarity

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Similar

Having a resemblance in appearance, character, or quantity, without being identical
Northern India and similar areas
A soft cheese similar to Brie

Familiarity

Acquaintance with or knowledge of something
I have little familiarity with that software program.

Similar

A person or thing similar to another
He was one of those whose similar you never meet

Familiarity

The quality of being known from past experience
The familiarity of the buildings made us realize that we must be near the hotel.

Similar

A substance that produces effects resembling the symptoms of particular diseases (the basis of homeopathic treatment)
The principle of treatment by similars
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Familiarity

Established friendship or intimacy
Cooperation that came easily because of the partners' familiarity.

Similar

Having a resemblance in appearance or nature; alike though not identical.

Familiarity

Improper or unduly intimate friendliness; forwardness
Found the familiarity of the sales clerk offensive.

Similar

(Mathematics) Having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional. Used of geometric figures
Similar triangles.

Familiarity

An act characterized by forwardness.

Similar

Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, comparable.
My new car is similar to my old one, except it has a bit more space in the back.

Familiarity

The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy.

Similar

(mathematics) Of geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size, rotational orientation, and position; in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional; such that one can be had from the other using a sequence of rotations, translations and scalings.

Familiarity

Undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence.

Similar

Of two square matrices; being such that a conjugation sends one matrix to the other.

Familiarity

An instance of familiar behaviour.

Similar

That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.

Familiarity

Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.

Similar

(homeopathy) A material that produces an effect that resembles the symptoms of a particular disease.

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.

Similar

Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.

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.

Similar

Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.

Familiarity

Personal knowledge or information about someone or something

Similar

Homogenous; uniform.

Familiarity

Usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known

Similar

That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.

Familiarity

Close or warm friendship;
The absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy

Similar

Marked by correspondence or resemblance;
Similar food at similar prices
Problems similar to mine
They wore similar coats

Familiarity

A casual manner

Similar

Having the same or similar characteristics;
All politicians are alike
They looked utterly alike
Friends are generaly alike in background and taste

Familiarity

An act of undue intimacy

Similar

Resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination;
Suits of like design
A limited circle of like minds
Members of the cat family have like dispositions
As like as two peas in a pod
Doglike devotion
A dreamlike quality

Similar

(of words) expressing closely related meanings

Similar

Capable of replacing or changing places with something else;
Interchangeable parts

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