familiarity breeds contempt

familiarity | American Dictionary

familiarity
noun[ U ]
us/fə·mɪlˈjær·ɪ·t̬i, -ˌmɪl·iˈær-/
a good knowledge of something, or the fact that you know it so well:
Harry’s familiarity with the city makes him a good tour guide.

Examples of familiarity

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Nonetheless, in some cases the phonetic spellings of mispronunciations may have been altered by some familiarity with the correct spelling.
The selection of a single lexical candidate is thus either random or based on frequency or familiarity of the lexical forms.
No significant differences were found in the number of utterances whose topic was an animal or action based on familiarity.
This is important because different target users are assumed to be more or less familiarity with spreadsheets, or with logic.
Some authors even assume familiarity with their own earlier work on their topic.
Constructing familiarity : a way of adapting to life in care homes.
This embodied subtext is in turn read by the audience, based on its members' life experiences and familiarity with theatre and/or filmed drama.
Teaching ethnomusicology to music students demands that they develop some familiarity with cultural contexts that are usually very unfamiliar to them.
Salient meanings are cognitively prominent owing to frequency, familiarity, conventionality, or prototypicality.
To begin with, there were important changes in maternal and child familiarity with the target book that occurred between the first and second readings.
Our familiarity with time graphs, in an infinite variety of compressions, may give us a particular advantage in this type of thinking in temporal space.
The other measures (frequency, familiarity, visual complexity and word length) also correlated with name agreement, albeit to a lesser extent.
Ideally, castrati received intensive conservatory training involving not just every gradation of voice and expression, but also complete familiarity with scores and lyrics.
This familiarity was not at the superficial level, but involved home visits on a regular basis.
Using a virtual keyboard also eliminates any bias towards copying offered by users' familiarity with touch typing.
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