Usage Note
familiarité can be positive (ease and comfort with something) or negative (unwanted forwardness). The plural familiarités often signals the negative sense — se permettre des familiarités means 'to take liberties'. The adjective familier and adverb familièrement are closely related; the false friend 'familiar' maps well here.
Examples
"Sa familiarité avec la langue lui permet de plaisanter."
Natural Translation
His familiarity with the language lets him joke around.
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